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"This wasn't some dev environment. This wasn't test data."

It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.

Thats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.

Thank you for speaking up -- I feel the same way.

Agree, i don't think it was ai written, or atleast written very well with AI.

I am usually able to pick up ai writing quickly but didnt feel it in this case

Same, and I'm growing tired of the witch hunt comments derailing the topic.

For example, why is this thread the top thread in this post?

Something having name is not a sign of not-ai. It when it is in places for no reason other then blow up the text length. As if school kid was trying to make the text longer to fit the minimal amount of words.

You're right to call that out

You sure about that?

https://github.com/blader/humanizer/blob/main/SKILL.md

P.S. Claude produced the initial text. :^)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551441

Also, “ What I didn't expect was what happened next.”

The Unicode arrows is also something Claude is using really often: “Camera -> RTMP ingest -> MediaKind -> broadcast partners -> your TV.”

And the table at the end is such a Claude thing.

The general style, a series of short sentences that feel like they are building up a punchline is what tells me it’s Claude, but the whole thing does stink of LLM generation

The table don't even add information, all but one cell share the same value for "When".

Ah la la, this is something I actually write sometimes. And em-dashes.

This hunt for AI is sometimes counterproductive

I found myself writing exactly like this for a while after reading pages and pages of this special construct before my bs detector understood what it is...

What do you think why AI uses that pattern so often?

Could it be in the human generated training data?

Seems like a logical fallacy. Just because AI uses that pattern doesn’t mean that pattern means AI

Gemini loves talking about "The Nuclear Option" too

You've hit a classic "gotcha".

It's honestly unbelievable how people continue to paste stuff like this. Do they not know that credibility is lost instantly?

I love how in one post everyone piles on someone for using the word "retarded", meanwhile in another post someone with autism gets piled on for using AI for accessibility.

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