[recursivegirth]

> The compute is still real. The VRAM is still real. And the memory bandwidth is where it gets genuinely surprising.

Had to stop there. Annoying. I can't stand AI use for writing. It makes any otherwise great article feel so disingenuous.

[tymscar]

Agree. But I have not used AI in the slightest.

Some of us just write that. AIs had to learn it from somewhere.

[m0rde]

What a difficult world you must live in these days

[peddling-brink]

While I don’t disagree with their sentiment, I’m far more annoyed with it than the AI writing.

[m0rde]

Yeah. I get that many HN comments are just complaints (heck mine was too and just as negative and shaming). But how bad of a day must you be having to try to shame someone about how they choose to write up an experience they thought was neat. Whatever, free speech and all that. Hope OC's day gets better.

[gsquaredxc]

It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actionable in the future. I too had to stop reading the article at that point, so I think if the author wants more people to read, my advice for them is to just write like themselves. We’ve entered the start of a new Instagram filter age where many people feel they need to have LLMs reword their writing presumably for the same reasons as the original filter age. I share OC’s sentiment of pushing against the recent trend of implicitly shaming people for their individualistic writing styles.

[qingcharles]

Every single HN post has the same comment now.

[rafram]

Only because so many of the articles posted on HN now are AI-written, and badly, too. A lot of tech people are so impressed with LLMs’ capabilities in code that they fail to recognize how bad they are at writing enjoyable prose. And it feels like a chore to write out a whole blog post by hand when the machine could do it for you! But the result we get is so, so much worse and more annoying.

[qingcharles]

I dislike AI prose too, the cadence of it really rubs me the wrong way, but, that said we've had a lot of great, informative articles lately, written with AI help, where you just have to grit your teeth and get through them to get the underlying knowledge.

I don't think that commenting on every article is going to make the posters suddenly decide to go back and rewrite it by hand. Some of them probably don't even speak English natively. The comments are getting more tiresome than the AI prose at this point.

Hopefully in a year or so the LLM output won't be so janky and obvious, so this might just be a phase everyone has to pull through.

[fouc]

That line was the exact moment I also realized the post was AI written. I kept reading though, but I am left constantly guessing at which key details might be pure hallucinations.

[tymscar]

FYI, not a single line was AI written. If there is a hallucination, it’s fully mushy brain sourced.

[fouc]

Sorry for the false positive! It's interesting that multiple people thought that line was AI generated.

I think for me it was mainly the superlative "genuinely surprising" that made me wonder.

[SubiculumCode]

Honestly, the default styles are pretty bad. I use Claude in my scientific writing in a very specific way. 1. I write a paragraph. 2. I put Claude into concise style mode. I then ask Claude to revise for clarity.

I can write competently, but it's natural direction is towards emotional rhythmic flow that can convey emotion/passion...but which for scientific writing, can get in the way of clear clean communication. So, I write what I mean,and Claude straightens it out...and these days (i.e. not last year), it doesn't lose my meaning that often. And since I wrote it first, these AI-isms appear less frequently, and if they do, I revise them away.