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I feel like it's the Emperor's new clothes reading this article and seeing the praise it's getting. This sentence doesn't even make sense:

> These products use very low level Linux primitives like containers, Kubernetes, Firecracker microVMs, and networked protocols.

Out of anything that is a "low level linux primitive" I could maybe argue that networking? protocols fit the bill.

And it's obviously fully AI-generated! Which I wouldn't even care about if I could actually trust the content, which I can't!

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Low level today means JavaScript instead of typescript

Low-level today means opening IDE instead of the Chat client.

That was 16 hours ago. Mind captioning to my smartphone and seeing solutions appear without uttering a word or lifting a finger.

Fair enough, that sentence was fairly compressed. I’ve reworded it - the meaning remains the same.

The post is not AI generated, I use AI for code generation and write my own articles.

Which part of the post are you struggling with? This is a post describing our own experience and journey. Happy to back up any specific claim.

How about your reply here? Was that AI-generated? If not, are you conscious of how much you're starting to sound like AI? Is that something you see as a positive thing, or something you'd like to avoid?

I actually find this somewhat interesting, because it seems that a lot of people who weren't comfortable with expressing themselves verbally are feeling more empowered in that area. We're hearing new voices for the first time, albeit heavily-filtered ones, and I have to believe that's a good thing.

But part of me still finds it offputting for some reason. It's interesting to think about whether that's more of a "you" problem, or more of a "me" problem.

It's an interesting idea. Tools like Grammarly exist to help with business communication. I wonder if there's a space for a Social Media or online writing assistant to help people. I for one could probably benefit from a tone shift away from acerbic troll.

Interestingly I haven’t had such a challenge in the past but regularly am accused of being AI. In my case I think it’s because I have experience writing philosophy papers which trend towards a more stilted tone. For this response I’m also probably exaggerating it a tad.

A lot of it is that good argumentative/persuasive writing follows the structures that AI writing follow. Groups of three, not only x but y, etc. It’s all stuff that’s considered a best practice. It used to be comments structured like that meant you were writing overly formally now it’s so common people see it as LLM output.

Oh as for how I feel about this… couldn’t care less if people think I’m AI or not. Im not in it for the karma, I don’t care if people think I use AI even as someone who’s anti AI.

This comment of mine has discussion of this topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48035093

Or maybe it's you who sees agents everywhere... could it be?

> Fair enough ... compressed ... ACTION->RESULT ... NEGATION->STATEMENT ... follow up questions.

What model are you again?

It is interesting to see the degree to which Claude voice creeps into normal speech. It also leads to some annoying catch-22’s, like rejecting an em-dash where you might have genuinely written one to avoid the appearance of LLM text.

Thankfully I’m lazy and have always used hyphens everywhere so at least I’m safe on that point.

I was just mentioning this in another comment earlier today, but Claude Opus 4.8 (that version specifically) uses the word “genuinely” on so many of its responses that I’ve started using it often when speaking when I didn’t before. Nothing wrong with the word itself, just a frustrating reminder that using these tools all day for work (and then on top of that some nights and weekends for personal projects) is literally changing how I speak and presumably think…

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