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Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by nvme0n1p1 on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:20AM (#50484834)
AI slop. Every article on this site has "The honest tradeoff" as a header. Looks like it was generated to promote a book which is no doubt also just slop.
Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by AlexeyBrin on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:35AM (#50485050)
Let's not exaggerate, it took me 2 seconds to find another recent article from the same website without the "The honest tradeoff".
Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by ibn_khaldun on Friday November 13, 2026 @10:45AM (#50485199)
> Every article on this site has "The honest tradeoff" as a header.

This is a hallucination. I'm sorry. This is what we call these kind of statements these days. Unless you can prove your humanhood, that's how it is now.

Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by raincole on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:03AM (#50485504)
I don't know if this Zig over C article is generated, but the Zig over Rust one [0] is 100% AI.

[0]: https://www.mtsoukalos.eu/2026/04/why-zig-over-rust-for-syst...

Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by hn_submit on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:36PM (#50486850)
How can you tell? I just scanned it but it doesn't feel like being generated.
Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by eatonphil on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:06AM (#50485551)
Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by ivanjermakov on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:12AM (#50485630)
Doesn't read AI generated at all.
Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by ibn_khaldun on Friday November 13, 2026 @11:47AM (#50486134)
The prosody and the headline style is a dead giveaway but compared to other AI generated text this article is far more tolerable.

Meanwhile no one's pointing out any technical errors.

Re:Why Zig over C for Systems Programming by schaefer on Friday November 13, 2026 @01:59PM (#50488123)
Up until about a week ago, I had no sympathy for people complaining about "AI writing style" in articles - and then all of a sudden it hit me. Kind of like unexpectedly developing an allergy to sawdust.