Their design approach wasn’t particularly unusual, so I’m not sure what that sentence means.
I do miss the days when technical reports were clear and concise. This one has some interesting information, but it’s buried under a mountain of empty AI-written bloat.
It's annoying because it is a super common widget and it is interesting work, the first draft or literally even prompt they gave the AI probably would've been a great post, all they had to do was not ensloppify it...
I remember back I think around 2011, CF was new and I was testing it on some vbulletin forum, all the email communication were with the cofounder if I recall correctly, the UI had only the dns settings back then. Now they make a whole article on some text redesign, time flies.
That's why I say most AI content isn't just slop—it's fundamentally about deception. It's about tricking someone into believing that a text was written by a human, or that a photo or video is a true recording of a real event.
Like this, its purpose is to fly under the radar unless your figurative ears are pricked up and primed to detect the telltale signs. Fuck this shit.
Yeah it’s basically the prose equivalent of getting too much radio play - hilarious how the breakthrough of LLM content has ‘ruined’ “it’s not X—it’s Y” for so many of us now
Maybe, like overplayed pop songs, in 20 years or so we’ll come around to viewing the phrase fondly.
> "Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs ...
It's a bit of a "Karen AI" telltale sign. It's probably been trained on a lot of "I-know-it-all-Karen" posts and as a result we're bombarded with Karen-slop.
I do miss the days when technical reports were clear and concise. This one has some interesting information, but it’s buried under a mountain of empty AI-written bloat.