[bugufu8f83]

>Setting aside...the LLM writing style

I don't want to set that aside either. Why is AI generated slop getting voted to the top of HN? If you can't be bothered to spend the time writing a blog post, why should I be bothered spending my time reading it? It's frankly a little bit insulting.

[piskov]

Don’t assume something you cannot prove. It was great writing

[npunt]

Normally the 1 sentence per para LinkedIn post for dummies writing style bugs me to no end, but for a technical article that's continually hopping between questions, results, code, and explanations, it fits really well and was a very easy article to skim and understand.

[netsharc]

It's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of trying to push some data over the network?). I had to skim over it, like watching a YouTube video at 2x so I don't start evaluating how obnoxious the narrator is.

[bugufu8f83]

>Don’t assume something you cannot prove.

Well it's an inherently unprovable accusation, so assumption will have to do. It reeks of LLM-ese in certain word choices, phrases, and structure, though. I thought it was quite clear.

>It was great writing

Err... no accounting for taste, I suppose.

[afiori]

Just saying but LLM-ese as the common dominator of how people wrote, it is likely the writing style of a lot of people

[throw-12-16]

How many people do you know that use em dashes —- none.

[tomjakubowski]

Em-dash has a trivial and mnemonic shortcut on Macs (Option-shift-hyphen), so I've been an em-dash user for as long as I've had one.

[Anamon]

I committed typing en-dashes and ellipses on Windows to muscle memory. Alt+0150, Alt+0133. Bam!

I'm sure there are easier ways this can be set up. But, as I said, muscle memory.

Although I'll have to admit that wanting to use proper typography in the first place probably started when I was typesetting a print magazine on a Mac, where it's super easy to do it the proper way.

(I'm also never going to let AI slop discourage me from trying to use proper punctuation.)

[piskov]

Do yourself a favour and use typography layout

https://ilyabirman.net/typography-layout/

[throw-12-16]

English isn't my first language, so I already use an alternate layout.

[tylervigen]

The author replied below that they used Opus to write the blog post.

[rasz]

You mean other than this being AI slop company, usage is monitoring AI slop output and author confirming blog is AI slop? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46372060

[PunchyHamster]

Looked like typical medium.com slop but with a bit more technical detail. Not sure where you see greatness