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by anonymous_user9 11 days ago
> The DVA was correct, the sector math was correct, the dd command was correct. The right place, the wrong mental model.

God the intensity is tiresome. Whether or not it's AI slop, it's also bad writing. Things can be fun or interesting or worthwhile without being a harrowing battle of discovery!

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> Things can be fun or interesting or worthwhile without being a harrowing battle of discovery!

The quoted sentences used "correct", "right" and "wrong". Hardly the sensationalist words you're implying.

It's not the word choice, it's the whole tone and structure of the sentence. It reads like a horror writer building up the tension before a big reveal but it just keeps drawing it out over a whole article and for something that isn't worth the build-up. It gets quite tiring to read IMO (LLM writing in general tends to have a grandiosity to it which really grates with something which is meant to be more informative, in my experience. They will explain a section of tax law like it's the second coming of Christ).
I get what they're saying, it's more about the punchy tone than the word choice