[garethsprice]

You're absolutely right to call this out — and honestly? I want to sit with that for a moment. Here's the thing: this isn't really about AI writing. It's not even about coding agents. It's about something much deeper. What's genuinely worth knowing: while I generally agree, many people may not. I think there's a really interesting conversation to be had here. Thanks for naming this. It needed to be named.

(/s - Blargh, writing like that that by hand is exhausting)

[laylomo2]

I could literally feel my blood beginning to boil. You have a talent for this.

[garethsprice]

Hah thanks. I also feel this way rage-spotting AI-generated text everywhere these days. I have been looking into the speech patterns of LLMs lately ("unslopping" my own AI outputs) so had a bunch of the most horrible cliches memorized. Unfortunately this is a useless talent as a "reverse mechanical turk" at approx $25,000 for 1M output tokens (at 0.3 tok/sec) is not competitive in today's market.

[aaronharnly]

And honestly? That’s rare.

[yawnxyz]

saying the quiet part out loud

[mil22]

If you hadn't used ' instead of ’, I would never have realized this was actually written by hand.

[port11]

If you wrote this yourself, congratulations are in order. I was genuinely annoyed. It’s not easy. It’s hard. It’s not entertaining. It’s infuriating.

[esafak]

You're absolutely right!

I was at a restaurant the other day and my kid noticed how the waiter started every sentence with "Absolutely!" That reminded me of the Anthropic Super Bowl ad, and got me thinking if the waiter's speech patterns had been influenced by AI.

[port11]

In my time in the US, way before LLMs, very agreeable and helpful waiters/Whole Foods staff would already be using ‘absolutely!’ in that enthusiastic manner. Helping someone out was always possible, I enjoyed that.

[garethsprice]

Yes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.01754

[mohamedkoubaa]

Eventually we will just speak tokenese rather than english

[port11]

Nonsense. We grew up quoting our favourite shows, abhorring certain words, preferring others. This is just another cultural modification engine, like everything else humans do.

[bix6]

COTD! Now just slide a rick roll in there.

[wiseowise]

“Chat, raise my vitriol”