I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by stantaylor on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:40PM (#48507832)

Even if this guy were not anti-AI, as the primary maintainer of OS projects, it sounds like he's dealing with a genuine problem.

> My initial task when a new unexpected PR arrives is to determine if there is a person behind it or not, and luckily this is easy to figure out in just a few seconds.

OK. How? That would have been an interesting explanation to me.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by CagedCoder on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:45PM (#48507915)

I feel like these 2 sentences answer what the author is looking for:

> I do not want an LLM-generated novel with chapters, bullet points and emojis, just a simple description of the problem in your own voice.

> If I don't see proof of human involvement, then I'm not interested

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by GrinningFool on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:28PM (#48508450)

If someone goes out of their way to hide it, it probably can't be detected. But the default commit comment and PR writeup styles are pretty distinctive.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by raincole on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:48PM (#48507953)

> OK. How?

By vibe. That's what people who believe they can detect AI do.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by bluefirebrand on Friday June 12, 2026 @03:28PM (#48508443)

Don't blame the people who dislike AI, blame the people producing AI and using it to produce mass amounts of trash. They're the ones poisoning the public well and making all of this distrust necessary

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by raincole on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:08PM (#48508882)

I didn't blame anyone? I judge whether an article / repo is AI-generated by vibe too. Vibe/intuition is the essential part of our daily lives. It's the #1 think you ask yourself in an interview.

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by ZpJuUuNaQ5 on Friday June 12, 2026 @02:45PM (#48507906)

>OK. How?

Have you never seen vibe-slopped PRs?

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Re:I Am Not a Reverse Centaur by phyzome on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:07PM (#48510433)

You pretty quickly get a sense for it. But the author does also explicitly list a few indicators.

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