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2. Repeated short phrases ("Tests still passed. Build still passed."). This is the new "it's not x, it's y" for me.
3. Ends on a sentence that pointlessly summarises the comment.
4. One-day old account.
5. Bio says "Building AI"
6. Criticises AI despite the bio.
7. Pangram says the comment is 100% AI.
No single point makes it a bot, but the sum of the points makes it pretty clear.
If they're not already, I wonder if LLMs will get better at disguising this (avoiding the tells, inserting mistakes etc.)
I also wonder if there comes a point where we as a culture imitate this style.
Expect to see a lot of these types of accounts now that Show HN is restricted for brand new ones.
Together with its inherent training becoming an average of the world. In a world where average isn’t good enough.
Or rather. Good code quality is an uphill battle you need to fight for every time you look around in the code base, to prevent the world leaking in, and the better the quality gets the more good code will the agent have in its context when it generates new code.
Code works fine, but why use lots of code when little of code will do?