[QuadmasterXLII]

Disconcerting to see at the end that the blog post is generated. The genre is decidedly “use-my-thing Readme.md” and all current gen LLMs by default jump to shameless lies when they detect that they are writing such a Readme, although they are perfectly capable of working out the truth in a genre like “essay question on which you will be graded by academic standards.”

Are the human “coauthors” lying if I hypothetically go to the crate looking for the promised xla backend and find //TODO implement this?

[pjmlp]

Everyone is racing to build everything with AI, and displace developer teams, why should we expect the same people would behave differently when writing blog posts?

This kind of regular complaint on HN and Reddit is really strange.

"Look what I did with Claude!", no Claude did it.

"Buah the blog post is AI generated", of course it is, everyone and their dog are using AI now.

[hogehoge51]

Why?

Firstly, it clearly states it was written collaboratively. The usual division of labour splits the task into ideas and words, human the former, agent the latter. Is this a problem? I was interested in understanding the author’s ideas; consuming the words is an unfortunate chore.

Secondly, this was published in three languages. Perhaps you missed the 日本語 and 中文, or dismissed them as agent noise? To reinforce the human/agent demarcation: without agentic AI, it would probably be quite the chore to post all three languages. The English is not written the way a non-native speaker would write it. I assume the author conversed with the agent in their native language to describe the content and conveniently got three sets of generated words expressing their ideas.

I really struggle to understand the conflation of communication-channel coding (words) and authorship.

[QuadmasterXLII]

There's no larger philosophical point here, just an empirical observation that when I trust an AI generated readme I reliably get burned, in a way that I typically don't get burned by e.g. an AI generated svg viewer or batch download script.

[hogehoge51]

Makes sense, that's a fair heuristic.

TBH - I weigh it higher as it's from a University in Saitama, a place I have a strong connection to and don't see here often. An irrational reason to ignore the AI smell, but why not.