[twoodfin]

No, they don't, and I don't try to judge a book by its cover, anyway.

TBC, I don't dislike LLM-written articles because I think the author is being lazy, and I can even live with the LLM-isms. I dislike LLM-written articles in the main because they're lousy at serving their purpose of communicating some interesting human thought to other humans. They are very good at creating the illusion that's what's happening, hence all the upvotes.

[gpvos]

Wow, what an air of superiority.

[twoodfin]

Yes, my opinion is that the average highly upvoted deep dive technical article on HN was substantially better in 2023 than in 2026.

I also believe that the bulk of that degrade is due to frontier LLM’s currently being poorly trained to write such articles well, given whatever scale & sophistication of prompts the typical author is using.

Not to say they won’t be better someday (soon?)