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Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by marcus_holmes on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:08AM (#46702561)
Is it just me, or does every post starting with "Great Idea!" or "Great point!" or "You're so right!" or similar just sound like an LLM is posting?

Or is this a new human linguistic tic that is being caused by prolonged LLM usage?

Or is it just me?

Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by defatigable on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @03:20AM (#46702618)
:-) I feel you. Perhaps I should have ended my post with "Would you like me to construct a good prompt for your planning agent?" to really drive us into the uncanny valley?

(My writing style is very dry and to the point, you may have noticed. I looked at my post and thought, "Huh, I should try and emotionally engage with this poster, we seem like we're having a shared experience." And so I figured, heck, I'll throw in an enthusiastic interjection. When I was in college, my friends told me I had "bonsai emotions" and I suppose that still comes through in my writing style...)

Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? by marcus_holmes on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:13PM (#46713537)
Excellent reply :) And yes, maybe that's it, that the LLM emotion feels forced so any forced emotion now feels like an LLM wrote it.