[jeffchuber]

that was me swyx

[rollulus]

Multiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172

[threeducks]

Here is an even older comment chain about it from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706

Apparently, comparing low-background steel to pre-LLM text is a rather obvious analogy.

[pseidemann]

As well as that people often do think alike.

If you have a thought, it's likely it's not new.

[rollulus]

Oh wow, great find! That’s really early days.

[jeffchuber]

i didnt claim to invent it.

i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did

[swyx]

you did!!