That's so obviously LLM slop. It doesn't seem like that was noticed so much at the time though.
But also no, they weren't that good in 2024, which is another reason to recognize it's not LLM slop.
I have AI blind hate fatigue.
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Heck, a year or two ago, someone accused me of being an LLM here on HN, sir, English is just my second language, I sometimes fumble it organically, thank you very much, I also have a touch of ADD.
I don't use LLMs for my comments, I write the dumbest things I think of and eat the downvotes, I make it a point that if I'm posting comments or writing a blog post, an LLM is only going to tell me suggestions on what to tweak, but for the most part I post raw if its just a comment on a forum.
AI is great at saying nothing specific really flamboyantly or juicing up very little substance with a whole bunch of that sort of puffery that's endemic to corporate communication. It is very bad at the subtle pairing of tone and diction with subject matter and audience that humans just do naturally.
That's the kind of language style LLMs picked on (recent attempts to make their writing more common-people, particularly Claude, notwithstanding), and the jarring/sloppy part is mostly just that you don't expect to see this kind of language in a bug report or commit description or design draft. If you got such response from a person in such context, you'd accuse them of showing off and making communication difficult. But it's not bad English - it's too good English for context.
Better, perhaps yes. But AI writing is entirely recognizable as non-human, so it is easy to spot it as AI slop.
The vast majority of people are not good prose writers. Nor are LLMs.
Also this story is about problems with the connection of their house, not the wi-fi. I find it hard to believe that a networking engineer and his son that's also an engineer use the incorrect term?
Re: your other comment. When my dad has problems with the internet, he will say the wifi is not working. And this isn’t incorrect, even if the source of the issue is not happening between the router and his device. Sure, the underlying issue may be something else. But by that logic putting anything but the final root cause in the title would be misleading or “real network engineers wouldn’t do that”, but I would argue that would just be bad storytelling..
Depends on the OS. Linux and macOS ping will keep pinging until you ctrl+c. Windows ping I guess is what you're talking about? Even then, I assume Windows ping has a command-line option to change the default number of pings.
> Even if you increase the count, after 20 lost packages wouldn't you have decided the connection isn't up?
Maybe not? It feels like you're just trying to come up with random excuses as to why this isn't real.
> Also this story is about problems with the connection of their house, not the wi-fi.
The connection to their house is a point-to-point line-of-sight WiFi link between the house and the author's father's office building.