The Copilot Delusion

Re:The Copilot Delusion by throwaway314155 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:06PM (#44068828)

I don't mind your rebuttal of the article, but to suggest that this particular article is AI generated is foolish. The style the author presents is vivid, uses powerful imagery and metaphor and finally, at times, is genuinely funny. More qualitatively, the author incorporates a unique identity that persists throughout the entirety of a long form essay.

All of that is still difficult to get an LLM to do. This isn't AI generated. It's just good writing. Whether you buy the premise or not.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by queenkjuul on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:37PM (#44069653)

I got slightly LLM vibes for the first few paragraphs ngl. It became very clear it wasn't very fast, though.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by boxed on Thursday May 22, 2025 @09:08PM (#44068837)

Maybe he meant it was long. Some people seem to think that long walls of text is how you spot AI slop.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by nozzlegear on Thursday May 22, 2025 @10:59PM (#44069463)

And god forbid you use an emdash these days.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by xigoi on Friday May 23, 2025 @07:52AM (#44072007)

I’ve recently been accused of using ChatGPT because I wrote a message with formal language and bullet points.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by MrVandemar on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:05AM (#44078675)

I'm unapologetic about using em-dashes. They're in my toolbox, and I reach for them. I can and do manually type em-dashes manually in both Linux and Microsoft Windows using the key-codes.

Anyone who is basing their opinion of the provenance of a piece of writing on whether em-dashes are used, then that opinion is emminently discardable lemming-babble.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by chrismorgan on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:26AM (#44069851)

Yeah, it feels a very different style of unhinged to LLMs. I can’t yet imagine an LLM producing such a beautiful and contextually-appropriate sentence as “They’ll be out there trying to duct-tape horses to an engine block, wondering why it doesn’t fly.”

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by nick3443 on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:39AM (#44070168)

This brought tears to my eyes:

But you—at your most frazzled, sleep-deprived, raccoon-eyed best—you can try. You can squint at the layers of abstraction and see through them. Peel back the nice ergonomic type-safe, pure, lazy, immutable syntactic sugar and imagine the mess of assembly the compiler pukes up.

Amazing

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by a0123 on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:10PM (#44075073)

> The style the author presents is vivid, uses powerful imagery and metaphor and finally, at times, is genuinely funny. More qualitatively, the author incorporates a unique identity that persists throughout the entirety of a long form essay.

This is incredible you would say that because you'll never guess what it reads like.

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by petemir on Saturday May 24, 2025 @01:30PM (#44082523)

I'm glad I'm not the only one to have thought that...

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Re:The Copilot Delusion by yerushalayim on Thursday May 29, 2025 @12:43AM (#44123191)

This rebuttal of the rebuttal does feel earily AI. Perhaps an injection of cynicism?

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