No need to read them, just a vibe check would be insightful. It's weird how branding, even before AI had a lot of the same catchy patterns, and now it's hard to define what is the right prose (engineers might want one thing and other role families others) and sometimes you're trying to write almost with the "everyone else bag in mind" because that's the personal connections you link your "here's what I often repeat in written form".
No, they don't, and I don't try to judge a book by its cover, anyway.
TBC, I don't dislike LLM-written articles because I think the author is being lazy, and I can even live with the LLM-isms. I dislike LLM-written articles in the main because they're lousy at serving their purpose of communicating some interesting human thought to other humans. They are very good at creating the illusion that's what's happening, hence all the upvotes.
Yes, my opinion is that the average highly upvoted deep dive technical article on HN was substantially better in 2023 than in 2026.
I also believe that the bulk of that degrade is due to frontier LLM’s currently being poorly trained to write such articles well, given whatever scale & sophistication of prompts the typical author is using.
Maybe it is. But the comments complaining about it are worse than the posts themselves. And as I wrote, many of them are wrong. Downvote or ignore, and move on, please.
