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This ai generated writing is so grating. I would think someone who spend eight years as an SRE (indicating they’re probably pretty savvy and technically competent), would avoid this crap.

Phrases like, “The moment that broke me wasn’t the empty dashboard. It wasn’t the crickets after launch” or “Here’s what I missed: Those competitors weren’t obstacles. They were validation” (random bolding that ChatGPT does omitted) are just so banally awful it makes me weep.


You’re absolutely right! It’s not just grating—it’s professionally reckless!

Absolutely! It’s not simply annoying—it’s dangerously careless.

> I’m not charging. No paywall. No “freemium” trap. Just pure value.

This had me drop out of the article..


Where does this style of writing come from? It’s pretty distinct and makes it so easy to detect.

linkedin posts. it's practically the house style.

LinkedIn, although I'm not sure LinkedIn was the originator, itself. Self-absorbed overly-dramatic writing like this has plagued LinkedIn forever. There's even a subreddit that makes fun of its authors: /r/LinkedInLunatics.

Now you're just seeing it on this blog post.

And here on HackerNews, in my post.

Why, you may ask?

Because my intent is to leave you breathless in anticipation for "engagement." With short sentences. That don't let you rest and take in what you read.


I bet we could draw a throughline of the overly-dramatic writing style to TED Talks and all the way back to Steve Jobs' presentation style. The pregnant pauses. The short sentences. The holding back on making point for effect. All traced back to early-2000s product launches.

We gotta add in the "and here's what B2B Enterprise SAAS sales taught me"

We’re not just using words. We’re writing them. Unless we’re not. #slopfest2025

I dropped out at the same sentence.

eBPF is so low level it feels like a mistake to let vibe coded slop exist there. I’ll have to pass until someone reputable reviews it, which I assume will be never.

I am having a hard time distinguishing your points. I think you two are in agreement.

Deporting one person who is a US citizen or has legal status to be here is offensive and we shouldn’t tolerate it.

It’s poor writing.

First Amendment is quite important.

Of course it is, and the union people must be delighted and that's fine with me. But come on. This is hardly the great poster child of First Amendment privileges. This is a departmental squabble that has been allowed to balloon way out of proportion. I can't imagine a more irrelevant affirmation of constitutional rights.

Should we only correct violations that would qualify as a "great poster child," then? Let them all fly if they're not sufficiently big and flashy for you? Perhaps we should ignore theft that doesn't meet your personal financial bar, too?

In what way is a blatant 1st amendment violation not a great poster child here? Because it sticks in your craw?

So you would be okay with your employer putting words in your mouth?

Borders of countries are fundamentally human constructs. There is no morality associated with crossing them legally or illegally. This is the difference between a law declaring something illegal because they think it is better for society (a parking ticket, say) and a law created that require moral turpitude (murder, say).

Morality is a human construct as well, so I don’t quite get your point.

Ha ha, “no morality,” when it’s people you like. You’re saying pogroms aren’t immoral? That’s a “legal” border crossing!

A country with no borders is not a country at all, merely an "economic zone" that can be leached until dry.

What is the mechanism whereby an economic zone is leached, such that borders would protect it?

I don't have hard data yet but I'm pretty sure some cities have suburbs outside them, connected via road, that rich people use as tax havens so they can live near a city without being subject to the laws and taxation of the city

Right but if you go into a country then you're in the country, not in the outskirts. You still pay taxes (generally...), and, in many countries, don't get any social services.

If anything, many formally-colonial countries are leeching off their illegal immigrants, not the other way around.


Countries are generally big and with cities on both sides of a border so that doesn't seem like it would be a big worry for them.

Or she.

They is the way

I've literally had someone get upset that I used "they", you can't win with some people.

You can probably win with that person though. Just not by using "they".

Perhaps because they is plural. Plural is reserved for the royal family in some cultures.

'They' is also used when gender is unknown and has been for a long, long time.

Person_1: I found this great blogger whose writing I think you'd love.

Person_2: Oh, really?! What do they write about?


Only in English.

It's an English fucking word.

I take issue with the Author section. You’re the only one listed. Shouldn’t you give ChatGPT credit, or even further afield, all the developers who wrote the code and answers that ChatGPT trained on to produce this, as far as I can tell, meaningless tool?

ChatGPT isn't an author, so it shouldn't be listed. Instead, every single piece of human creation that's been sloshed and slurried to produce this drab drivel should be put as authors. That would be fair.

If FSF trained a net on all the code that has Copyright assigned to FSF, could it be used to ethically vibe code free software retaining the same Copyright and license? Perhaps even pointing to a file on fsf.org with all the author's names?

This only seems fair.

So disappointing to not have the 3D printer STL file for this shape. Wish they would have uploaded it to thingiverse or something.



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