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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by jstanley on Saturday May 02, 2026 @01:03AM (#47983478)
lahfir, I vouched your (currently still dead) comment because it was interesting to me.

I expect the reason it is dead is that it seems LLM-generated (you "quietly" launched it on github? Who says that?).

Also, your comment claims that the tool is cross-platform and implies that it works on Mac, Windows, and Linux, but the graphic on the github README says it only works on Mac.

Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by nerdsniper on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:24AM (#47983852)
It looks hybrid human/LLM at best, but definitely possible that it's mostly human, from someone who is earnestly learning how to use "pitch" language. I got the feeling that some parts, like the bullet points, maybe originated from AI-generated documentation/readme's.

My intuition tells me that it could have been AI-generated, but if that's the case then it was heavily edited by a human. I think anyone who went through it for that would have changed other things as well. That's why I suspect it's pseudo-artificial pitch "coded" human writing with some (mostly, lightly edited) copy/paste of AI bullet points.

Then again, I can't find snippets of this language in the repo, so maybe I'm losing my discernment as LLMs advance (as well as the humans who are learning how to use them).

Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by jbreckmckye on Saturday May 02, 2026 @05:55AM (#47984950)
I think this guy is using AI for pretty much everything - he says as much in his GH profile. In fact his photo bears a Gemini watermark, meaning that is AI too.
Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by lahfir on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @03:47AM (#48019295)
Hey, thanks for the comment. Yes it's hybrid. AI wrote what I gave as an input. If it's better in articulating a message much better than me, why not use it, right?
Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by preommr on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:37AM (#47983933)
Wouldn't the opposite be true? That an llm would use well-known terms for general purpose writing. I think it's much more likely that a human would remember 'silent' launch, or 'stealth' launch, and use silent as a substitute.

I feel very strongly that comment wasn't AI generated.

Also, there's a bunch of normal comments that seem to be wrongfully flagged.

Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by jstanley on Saturday May 02, 2026 @07:59AM (#47985640)
> Wouldn't the opposite be true? That an llm would use well-known terms for general purpose writing.

You'd think, and yet LLMs do in fact have a particular style, and lots of it is common across all LLMs.

Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by handfuloflight on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:48AM (#47983964)
Why is Claude always pointing out or assuming what is done quietly?
Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by vasco on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:38AM (#47983937)
3 fake comments in the thread also
Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by lahfir on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @03:48AM (#48019304)
Hi. Mac is GA. Windows and Linux are in the roadmap.