I just used the modern method for articles like that.

I read the headlines, skimmed the prose that has no purpose other than 'it was what the AI put out', then read the conclusion.

Similarly, I skip video content where the title is something like "How to get better fuel economy for your car" and the video starts "Let's investigate the entire history of wheels", and the whole video could just be a guy sat in a chair saying "keep your tyres at the correct pressure"

But OP (or LLM) is sort of funny :)

> Now a beginner's tutorial opens with sixteen tools you've never heard of, half of them named after Japanese words for "fast," and the first command downloads more code than the Apollo guidance computer ran on, just to render a contact form.

After finishing the post, yes OP was funny, at the beginning only unfortunately. The rest of text is so LLMish that it hurts.

The beginning was promising…

I'm having a similar reaction, and I wonder if because this style, tone, and tics are what I'm encountering while using AI tools, I instantly get a bad taste in my mouth when I see it in the context of something that's supposed to be written by a person. Like I reflexively discount it the moment I see its staccato little stylish flourishes and the same handful of "scar tissue" type analogies it seems to like to trot out again and again.

I don't think only their writing is AI, I suspect the site as well. With modern frontend GenAI renditions it is more common for me to find sites that stutter during scroll, as this site does.

Oh. I assumed an article that references hand-writing things would be hand written. Silly me :(

This reads like the transcript of an AI YouTube video that is trying to make it to 8 minutes for an ad roll.

THIS THIS THIS THIS AND THIS.

I was GENUINELY (ha, see what I did there?) interested and started reading, only to immediately understand that no human sweat was spent in writing what I was reading.

The result is that within 2 minutes I went from "fantastic, just what I needed" to "fuck, no way I'm spending my time reading this, considering it's probably hallucinating parts that could not work as described". It doesn't matter if text is perfect, it's the "vibe of the vibe" that just puts me off. Plus, the design SCREAMS Claude Code.

So, to everyone who does or thinks of doing what the author of this text did, a pledge:

PLEASE, take time to implement your ideas. That's what gives them value. Nobody forces you to produce this slop nor to implement your ideas, even if you think it's the best in the world.

If you do, and you think that shortcutting like this equals being productive, you are sorely delusional. You are producing slop, and you are only contributing to noise. And if you do that in the hope that something produced this way might eventually take off in a game of large numbers, well you're just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Some of it might stick. All of it will still be shit.

I writhe in pain when I try to find a frontend dev guide for a newbie to learn off, and one of the later chapters is some shit like setting up a kubernetes cluster

They had me at “scar tissue grown over a real wound.”

>This is too oddly written to read in its entirety

It's AI slop.

No, there's no reason for slop to be posted here. If we wanted it we could just generate it ourselves.

Hi, OP here. Thanks for this.

I don’t seem to have cracked the Hacker News writing formula yet. A few years ago I got similar feedback, but for the opposite reason: people complained that my English felt awkward because I’m not a native speaker. This time I asked an LLM to smooth out the wording, and it seems I accidentally outsourced my personality too.

The content and research are mine. I spent a few hours trying to collect all the moving pieces into something I wish I’d had as someone returning to frontend after many years away. It was just meant to save a few fellow dinosaurs from opening 47 tabs and wondering why they suddenly need seven package managers.

Do you mean "this" as in 1. the story this website is telling, 2. the website itself, or 3. all the tech in the story

“Every tool is scar tissue over a real wound. Follow the wounds, and the map draws itself. THE ONE IDEA THAT UNLOCKS EVERYTHING” uh-huh

I have noticed myself having a visceral reaction to the AI tells now, somewhere between disgust and anger. And I am not an angry man and I like AI! There is just something about the voice that is incredibly off-putting, like a know-it-all friend who just ripped a giant fart. It is annoyingly correct and also smells really bad.

I imagine they're going for avuncular but a lot of us as adult engineers receive it as patronizing.

To me it bears similarities to the writings of Rebecca Hazelton:

https://rebeccahazelton.com/

Claude in general is condescending and often assumes it knows better than you.