Posted by petercooper 19 hours ago
(This isn't a condemnation. AI can often do a better job of representing thoughts than humans.)
Examples:
- The article organization
- The general language flow
- The bullet points with a bolded gist, a colon, and then elaboration (and bonus with details stats).
- The images are almost certainly AI generated. They look AI generated.
Using it slowly sucks the uniqueness out of you.
> A human on a VPN sees one CAPTCHA and passes, but a headless browser fleet sees a wall.
I do wish we’d stop complaining about em dashes though, that’s lazy criticism. The sentence structure is far worse, and a big tell is subheadings that are all variants of “The <adjective> <noun phrase>”.
"Use only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when communicating with me or writing documents, comments, and other communications intended for humans."
As a result, I've never seen Claude or Codex use it's weird terms like "load-bearing".
But yes your other points are absolutely right
(i skimmed the whole post, there are none)
Or maybe -- just maybe -- using dashes isn't a sign of content being AI written, just a style it picked up from the training data.
Never fails.
The OCD part of me can now go about my day.
Best thing I've read on HN so far this year.
So this is how AI wins, humans kill each other off because we might be bots and the bots inherit the earth.