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LLMs are incredibly prone towards producing examples and reasons in groups of 3, in an A, B, C pattern. The comment in question does so almost every paragraph.

> We found that implementing proper data durability (3+ replicas, corruption detection, automatic repair)

> The engineering time spent building and maintaining custom tooling for multi-region replication, access controls, and monitoring ended

And so on. On top of this a 5 second look at the profile confirms that it's a bot.

They're using a very structured and detailed prompt. The upside of that for them is that their comment looks much more "HN-natural" than 99% of LLM comments on here. The downside is that their comments look even much more similar to each other than other bots, which display more variety. That's the tradeoff they're making. Other bots' comments are much more obviously sloppy, but there's more variety across their different comments.



When I’m giving examples I also aim to give three if at all practical. Language generally flows more naturally that way.




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