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Fun game, but also a fascinating brain-probe. We're not used to reversing our internal classifiers.


Warthog! Meerkat!

Apparently, before ChatGPT, the english was devoid of any occurrence of "It's not X, it's Y"!

Quantity has a quality all of its own.

> I think the person was feeding you a story around the campfire to impress you.

Yeah, this sounds like the guy was just exaggerating for effect. Haven't we all joked before, "I'm writing a tool to automate my own job away."


I’m more surprised that it’s not believable for some of management depending on how process driven there job is.

I’ve definitely had roles where I sadly realized I’m automating the QA person next to me well before LLMs were mainstream.

In my experience I think, you would automate enough of a mid manager role that upper management doesn’t care for, and whatever left over responsibilities that couldn’t be automated is split between a high level IC and the next above. Then the bureaucracy sells is as a success.


It’s pretty sad that when people write well now, others dismiss it as AI.

It's also a pretty clear indication of AI undeniably passing the turing test in case that was in debate still.

No one can really tell if what's AI generated or not anymore. We're all going by vibes and undoubtedly getting it wrong.


i don't think that's what this means. it just means to me a certain population of people are clueless and don't use these tools enough. what's _actually_ damaging/obnoxious are the ones arguing that this guy is a good writer and that this isn't AI. IMO, telling the difference can be as simple as looking for the common giveaways, or as complex as reading between the lines of the structure of sentences, the terrible adjectives, and the soullessness of it. If you have half a brain and are well read, you can _probably_ tailor these LLMs to write in a way that reads better. But, it requires people to read a lot of content and literature to understand what good writing is, and this contrived, overly convoluted soulless soup of words is certainly not an example of it.

I agree with you and I definitely noticed the “it’s not just X, it’s Y” pattern.

But I find your comment funny because it ironically has the same “not that, this” pattern in a more verbose and less polished & less formulaic pattern.


yep, that's my signature way of writing -- "unpolished & verbose" :D

It's not written "well", it lacks that human touch, especially when writing about such a sensible subject, such as getting fired. It's too cold, actually too well written from a syntactic pov, which makes it inauthentic hence most probably AI.

The author literally admits to using AI in the preceding comments...

I took “moved wherever the company needed me” as hopping from troubled project to project to help fix. This is often what the most senior engineers do, and also the Manager label doesn’t necessarily mean much in this context.

Not AI.


I thought it was fairly obvious too. We have a few of the most senior engineers being assigned to multiple critical initiatives just because they've led others successfully

> Why is that? It's a fair question.

Seems simple to me. The Palestine/Israel protests were demanding change from an ally. It was a call for "you guys are supposed to be good but what you're doing is bad."

I suppose there could be rallies of support for the Iranian people, but it would seem silly for US protesters to demand change from the Iranian government, given that our opinion is probably not regarded highly by them.


Yes, but my team is 100% right about everything.


Personal pique positively played a primary part.


It should be one of the Trump kids to run it. Whichever one knows the most spanish. «¿Como hacer país muy bueno?»

And Republicans won’t see a problem with that.


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