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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by graypegg on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:38PM (#48850511)
The "Written by hand." in the footer hurts my brain. If it is written using real thoughts and ideas formed by themselves, they've fully imbued their brain with that AI stank I guess. It really does FEEL like unedited LLM output.

You can find a few smoking guns or em a few dashes, whatever. But every sentence is emanating the stank.

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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by Sivart13 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @02:44PM (#48850604)
you don't need to be an LLM to have LinkedIn brain, but it helps
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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by Bratmon on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:24PM (#48851888)
LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked.

Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless LinkedIn-brained post, I can lie to myself and say it was made by a discount LLM.

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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by Insanity on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:10PM (#48851737)
They prompted the model by hand.
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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by ghost_pepper on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:39PM (#48852069)
That's the sign of a good product: when you have to lie that you don't use it.
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Re:AI changes the economics of software rewrites by graypegg on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:22AM (#48860380)
Haha... well it's now changed to:

"Written with AI. Curated by hand."

Yesterday: https://web.archive.org/web/20260709105821/https://thetrutha...

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