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Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by achierius on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:52AM (#48156936)
This seems interesting, but has so many signs of AI writing that I worry it's not just edited but generated from whole cloth. Probably still a lot of truth in there but it does give me pause!

> The roundness is the signal.

> Slight pain, same result.

to point at a few.

Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by ande-mnoc on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:03AM (#48157922)
> The “two or more in that hour” filter on the inner query is doing important work.

This is Claude talking isn’t it.

Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by jorisnoo on Saturday May 16, 2026 @01:38AM (#48157141)
> Three filters. That’s it.

And my favourite most hated pattern, the no no no:

> Not machine learning, not graph databases, not whatever Gartner is hyping this year.

Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by zapkyeskrill on Saturday May 16, 2026 @03:07AM (#48157589)
Oh shyte, I use (and have used) these for a long time. Guess everything is classes as AI nowadays just yield and use it (everyone thinks you do anyway)
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by jorisnoo on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:15AM (#48158006)
Not everything of course, not because of a few phrases, not your comment. But the recent omnipresence of these is just hard to ignore.
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by achierius on Saturday May 16, 2026 @03:21AM (#48157672)
This comment certainly does not scan as AI! Look, this isn't perfect, but it's the best we've got, and so long as AI writing is meaningfully worse than human writing, people are going to try to tell the difference.
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by arcfour on Saturday May 16, 2026 @04:55AM (#48158287)
Nah, human writing will bleed through as imperfect (in a quaint way).
Re:SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud by gwerbin on Saturday May 16, 2026 @06:39AM (#48158897)
I suspect the entire concept was vibe coded. There's a reason fraud detection uses machine learning.