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Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by Peritract on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:27PM (#47442832)
There's a certain hypocrisy in sharing an article about how LLM generated PRs are polluting communities that has itself (at the least) been filtered through an LLM.
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by roywiggins on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:35PM (#47444719)
It doesn't read particularly like raw LLM output to me, and Pangram agrees with me: https://www.pangram.com/history/8711e385-96a0-4366-9427-f87f...
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by statements on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:30PM (#47442891)
What does 'filtered through an LLM' mean?
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by daringrain32781 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:35PM (#47442949)
Author writes something original, asks the AI to make it sound better, then posts the output of the AI.
Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by warkdarrior on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:38PM (#47443001)
I am not sure what your complaint is. The article is well written and has some interesting points:

> the reality is that maintainer capacity versus contribution volume is deeply asymmetric, and it's getting worse every day

> It is incredibly demotivating to provide someone with thorough, thoughtful feedback only to realize you've been talking to a bot that will never follow through.

Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by Peritract on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:42PM (#47443087)
It's the exact same complaint as in the article:

> I started noticing patterns. The quality wasn't there. The descriptions had a templated, mechanical feel. And something subtler was missing: the excitement.

The article has mechanically correct prose; that's not the same as well-written, and that's the topic of the article itself.

Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by statements on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:57PM (#47443309)
Conflicted as to whether I should be more offended at the accusation of using AI to 'filter' my article or because my writing reads as 'templated and mechanical'

There is enough here to have a micro existential crisis.

Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by fragmede on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:40PM (#47444782)
https://xkcd.com/3126/

People's bot detectors are defective, so if you write at all, you're going to get accused of it at some point. It's not annoying, it's rude – and you're absolutely right to be off put by it. If the preceding sentence gave someone a conniption, good! I wrote it with my human brain, I'll have you know! Maybe we could all focus on what's being said and not who or what is saying it.

Re:Prompt Injecting Contributing.md by warkdarrior on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:50PM (#47444904)
> The article has mechanically correct prose; that's not the same as well-written, and that's the topic of the article itself.

There is no requirement that an article's writing style aligns with the article's topic. Substance over style and all that.