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I don't understand what these are supposed to mean. Is this a new writing style, song references, or just a quirk of the author?

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These are songs by Kendrick Lamar. I guess that these were used to try and add a youthful, lighthearted touch to the article? Didn't work on me though.

[Count me out] No reason to use Elasticsearch in 2024.

[i] am still not going to use Elasticsearch [For Free?] again?

I'm a fan of that album and I didn't even realize the reference. Is there any other point to it?

Subliminally heart warming. Just look how the article ends:

> Forever :elasticheart: Open Source

Their marketing department is run by children?

I really hate this corporate trend. The soundtracks to all of our company meetings are basically mostly songs about wanting to fuck that girl you met in the club last night and I seem to be the only person who finds it incredibly inappropriate for the setting.

It kind of reads like it was LLM generated..."Write an announcement/apology about ElasticSearch finally being open source again (for now), where each paragraph starts with a relevant title from a Kendrick Lamar song"

To me, at first, it read as satire - but that doesn't make sense, coming from the official blog. Being LLM-generated is a plausible explanation - considering the circumstances, saying "open source is in our DNA" is right inside the uncanny valley.

Not like us is pretty new (may 24), not sure any proper llm could have been trained on it. All big openai models know nothing about 2024.

Nothing a simple "Browse the Web" plugin/tool before replying can't fix ;)

They are Kendrick Lamar song titles. Not clear to me why, though

Seems to be references to Kendrick Lamar songs... for some reason?

All those are Kendrick Lamar tracks. Highly recommend if you're into hip hop.

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