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Re:In praise of memcached by newfocogi on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:16PM (#48639357)
I don’t think LLMs would write this:

“Anyways, Redis homepage aside, you deploy it, and off you go - your trusty cache. You hand the connection string to the people who asked for it, and off you go.”

Re:In praise of memcached by abofh on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:46PM (#48639553)
So many it's not X it's Y. It might have been polished, but it was claude
Re:In praise of memcached by roncesvalles on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:20AM (#48640644)
there are only 2 and they don't seem to be AI-written
Re:In praise of memcached by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @01:51AM (#48640877)
You do realize that actual humans use that formulation, right? I know Claude is fond of it, but it didn't just invent the practice ex nihilo.
Re:In praise of memcached by newfocogi on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:20PM (#48639384)
Or this:

“None of these things are impossible with Redis, it’s just that memcached’s architecture in general more leans towards these directions, which makes it much, much more straightforward from an operations point of view.”

Re:In praise of memcached by chipotle_coyote on Monday June 22, 2026 @10:42PM (#48639521)
It's become de rigueur on HN to accuse any article one thinks is trite, obvious, or simply disagreeable of being AI-written. ("That comment has three items in a list! No human would ever put three items in a list! Checkmate, bot!")