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This is good technical content, but it's obvious that an AI wrote it.

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I actually came to the comments to share this snippet

> The hot operation isn’t really “fold this character,” it’s “does this character fold?” Almost always no.

Really that's distracting. If you must use LLMs, also do a rewrite pass that removes most LLMisms

Agreed. This is genuinely interesting content, but there is no doubt in my mind that "The two operations diverge on real characters—ß, İ, final sigma—which is why lowercasing as a stand-in silently produces wrong matches." is LLM output.

Are we doomed to spend the rest of our professional and personal lives reading AI output?

Yes.

> This is genuinely interesting

Are you sure you're not an LLM yourself?

I thought I wasn't, but you're making me second-guess myself.

It's just like when you're about to leave the store and suddenly wonder if you haven't accidentally left a 55" TV stashed into your backpocket. Gets me every time. :)

Has this become a ‘smell’? I tend to start my HN comments that are going be negative with versions of this, or my habitual “Genuine question, ..”; but if this is going to flag readers’ internal LLM-detector I will have to find some other way to indicate I’m actually interested in a dialogue (versus the shit posting that a more brief reply might signal).

I was talking with a junior at the office today about LLM output and mentioned em dashes, to which responded “oh, I thought that was just where formatting for hyphens was going, I guess I learned something from the AI writing instead of the other way around” and god, his acceptance of it was just deprrsssing.

Yes, they say genuinely and honestly a lot. Because RLHF thinks that means they're genuine and honest.

As soon as I know something is AI output, I start scanning, compressing and skipping things because I know it is full of filler, bogus connectives that are there just to punch the reader in the face. Strait to the summarization chamber with you!

Yea, it's terse and clipped in some sentences, and then changes tone abruptly and randomly, and paragraphs really don't flow together at all. It feels awkward to read, and there is a lot more to read here than there needs to be...

Even the title sounds clunky: "Don't stop early", its correct but I think a human would have chosen something else.

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