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> Separate question, separate table. This is our standard latency harness (three short prompts, five reps, 400-token cap), not the build tasks. tok/s is output tokens over wall-clock, uniform for all.

> so their tok/s is a ceiling, not a true decode rate. The clear read: the GPT-5.6 tiers are the snappiest models here on short prompts (Luna answers in about a second), Qwen is absurdly cheap and fast, and DeepSeek and GLM are the slowpokes

You put in a lot of good work, and kudos for that, but man, reading paragraphs like these just puts me off of the entire piece.

Like…how hard would it have been really to type these two sentences by hand, in your own natural voice?

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Yeah, I can't figure out where this "voice" comes from and it is so impossible to get rid of. It is so grating.

The problem is that everyone (well, too many) is now using the same "voice" when writing.

So no matter how good or thoughtful the writing is it gets tiresome.

That's not true at all, human tends to come through (in a way I didn't notice pre-LLM) with varied tone, with opinions injected, and with varying degrees of weight to different components, in all but the most egregious of examples (linkedin motivation pieces, apple marketing speak).

LLMs have a bunch of tricks for dressing up their infodumps, but they are almost purely infodumps, and no real opinion comes through. There's no sense of more importance to one statement or the other, it's all monotone (and usually over the top.)

You can suggest a different one and it works pretty well, the bar is very low.

I asked for hemingway in a planning document one time and the result was highly amusing to everyone. "We will not wreck it with small greeds." was an all time favorite for me.

Man invents text generation machine.

Man generates text.

It's the unholy trinity of pundits, marketing, and HR.

Their writing was already painted into this corner long before the LLM epoch and they continue to publish more than anyone else.

It's so telling and offputting.

Please write like a normal human and put the effort in to type what you want to say. Using AI to make your writing is not only lazy, it's bland, tiresome, and disrespectful of the reader's time.

For the arguments sake: What if that is the authors natural voice?

People became such a fragile snowflakes since AI popped up. Fussy because a programmer didn't produce prose they fancy.

Eh? I write that way sometimes. Long before LLMs.

I'm sick and tired of reading comments like these.

> how hard would it have been really to type these two sentences by hand, in your own natural voice

On the other hand, do we have to complain about every seemingly AI written text?

Yes? AI generated text is explicitly disallowed on HN, so it’s not crazy to expect that a similar standard be used for linked content.

But AI generated linked content was explicitly not disallowed. At least not at this time.

It is just horrible writing style. It doesn't particularly matter that AI wrote it.

Don't read it then. Why waste enrgy on complaining?

For the same reasons you replied to my comment

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