I'm honestly shocked by the number of upvotes this article has on Hacker News. It's extremely low quality. It's obviously written with ChatGPT. The tells are:
(1) Incorrect technology "hype cycle". It shows "Trigger, Disillusionment, Englightnment Productivity". It's missing the very important "Inflated Expectations".
(2) Too many pauses that disrupt the flow of ideas:
- Lots of em-dashes. ChatGPT loves to break up sentences with em-dashes.
- Lots of short sentences to sound pithy and profound. Example: "The executives get excited. The consultants circle like sharks. PowerPoint decks multiply. Budgets shift."
(3) "It isn't just X, it's X+1", where X is a normal descriptor, where X+1 is a more emphatic rephrasing of X. ChatGPT uses this construct a lot. Here are some from the article:
- "What actually happens isn't replacement, it's transformation"
- "For [...] disposable marketing sites, this doesn't matter. For systems that need to evolve over years, it's catastrophic."
Similarly, "It's not X, it's inverse-X", resulting in the same repetitive phrasing:
- "The NoCode movement didn't eliminate developers; it created NoCode specialists and backend integrators."
- "The cloud didn't eliminate system administrators; it transformed them into DevOps engineers"
- "The most valuable skill in software isn't writing code, it's architecting systems."
- "The result wasn't fewer developers—it was the birth of "NoCode specialists""
- "The sysadmins weren't eliminated; they were reborn as DevOps engineers"
- "the work didn't disappear; it evolved into infrastructure-as-code,"
- "the technology doesn't replace the skill, it elevates it to a higher level of abstraction."
- "code is not an asset—it's a liability."
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I wish people stopped using ChatGPT. Every article is written in the same wordy, try-to-hard-to-sound-profound, ChatGPT mannerisms.
Nobody writes in their own voice anymore.