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by doener 105 days ago
There are so many articles like these:

"We Moved from AWS to Hetzner. Cut Costs 89%. Here’s the Catch."

https://medium.com/lets-code-future/we-moved-from-aws-to-het...

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You just linked AI slop.
You mean the image? The text does not sound like AI at all IMHO.
> No theory. No fluff. Just production.

ChatGPT tells me "no theory, no fluff" all the time :D

Where do you think it learned that phrasing from?
Not from people using that same phrasing twice within a few sentences.

""" No warning. No traffic spike. Just… more money gone.

That’s when I finally looked at Hetzner.

I’ve seen too many backend systems fail for the same reasons — and too many teams learn the hard way.

So I turned those incidents into a practical field manual: real failures, root causes, fixes, and prevention systems.

No theory. No fluff. Just production. """

It's clearly slop, they immediately use effectively the same one again:

""" That last line isn’t a joke. There were charges I genuinely couldn’t explain. Elastic IPs we forgot to release. Snapshots from instances that no longer existed. CloudFront distributions someone set up for testing. """

No, human writers don't repeat this pattern every single paragraph. They use it at most across in a whole article.

Repetition is a very common tool in writing (ie 'I have a dream').

I'm just irked that it's being called out for AI slop because "I feel it in my bones!!"

There's a good chance it was written using AI -- should that matter? If the content is wrong/sucks, say that instead. If you're going to dismiss all AI assisted writing: good luck in the next decade.