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by rgovostes 50 days ago
Curiously, the accounts whose comments/articles I'm most confident about being AI-written tend to focus heavily on AI, yet deny using it themselves.

I prompted Claude 5 times with a simple "What do you think about <blog link>?" and the text it generated was remarkably similar. In fact in every response it used the adjective "genuinely", as in your "genuinely novel", which is the LLM glazing that initially struck me.

Claude goes on to hit several of the same notes, in the same tone, basically summarizing bits of the article (using `HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY` as a compound; referencing iptables for containers, structured JSON escaping, request size caps). It used the phrase "blast radius" and a similar three-point attack sequence in one response.

I am confident you are using LLMs to write—the Grith.ai blog is basically entirely LLM slop. Please stop posting it here.