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Re:Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, c... by ModernMech on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:11AM (#47947901)
It's really not hard to tell. It's the "How do you do fellow kids" of AI-isms. The presence of "fair pushback" and a single em dash reads as 99% AI generated as far as I am concerned.

Yes, if you don't want to sound like you're cargo culting AI, you do have to change the way you talk because people aren't going to care otherwise. At the very least just because it's boring. That's always been the nature of slang and lingo.

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Re:Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, c... by FrustratedMonky on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @09:51AM (#47948479)
"not hard to tell"

Or, with all of the AI slop, you think you are detecting all AI. And don't realize the stuff that is AI and not noticed. There is a wide variety of tools now, with different degrees of output quality.

https://ifunny.co/picture/it-s-been-forever-it-s-been-foreve...

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Re:Show HN: Rocky – Rust SQL engine with branches, replay, c... by ModernMech on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @12:54PM (#47951085)
I'm fine with work that uses AI. I use AI every day. I'm not fine with AI slop and it's very easy to tell what is slop and what's not, the same way it's easy to distinguish a selfie from a museum quality photograph. Are some selfies works of art? Few and far between, so you'd be forgiven if you dismiss all selfie-looking photographs as not worth your time.
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