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Comment by vhiremath4 | Hacker News Reader

AI Slop. Will not read.

The article?

turbopuffer is founded by some of the smartest people I ever worked with in past jobs. I strongly doubt they used an LLM in the writing of this article.

confirmed - we still write by hand

This one sentence sounds very LLMish:

> Object storage as the source of truth gave the economics, and tiered NVMe SSD/memory caches gave the performance.

Yes, that construct is, like em dashes, something that humans have been writing for a long time. That's the problem with triggering on one isolated tic. The tic comes from human practice, it's not like they invented it!

I'm not sure I've ever read a sentence like this before LLMs. Maybe I didn't pay attention, possible. I should do a search of pre-LLM writing for this construction.

FYI, replying "Stupid. Will not read" is less effort.

Are humans who use em dashes that intimidating to you?

I kept asking myself "is this ai written" while reading it to. Nothing to do wit h the em dashes. Phrasing like: > RIP, primary vector index. > The solution to these problems is simple: don't key on the ANN address. That is precisely the change turbopuffer v3 makes. As you can imagine, it is not a trivial change."

Cute heading, followed by wordy opening sentence that feels like it's repeating stuff even when it's not

Sounds like you need to read more.

Ad hominem attacks are against the rules on HN, but derision of bad faith actors is encouraged. :)

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