almondfestival

c'mon, it's literally the top 2 AI writing tropes in a single sentence. i googled "AI tropes", and here are the first 2 tropes listed in the first search result:

1) negative parallelism: "It's not bold. It's backwards."

2) em-dash addiction: "The problem -- and this is the part nobody talks about -- is systemic."

again, i'm not saying the author wrote this sentence using AI. i was just tickled by how stereotypically AI it sounded. for better or for worse, those characteristics are just going to set off the AI detector in people's heads now, as evidenced by the fact that there are like 10 separate comments on this post that picked up on the exact same thing.

this is intended as a silly observation and not an actual accusation, but for an article about not writing with AI, the following is one AI-ass sentence:

“Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.”

I'm sure this method has evolved and/or been supplanted over the last 15 years, but one thing that struck me reading this is how much the dynamics of unit test coverage have changed in recent history, with AI-generated commits containing 10x as many unit tests (many of them kind of silly and tautological) as in the olden days. Gonna need to update some of those coefficients in their CRAP1 formula... Or maybe test coverage has/will become too noisy a parameter to use at all.

just wanted to follow up and say this was a fantastic talk. the personal AI ethics point about never publishing anything that takes the reader longer to read than it took you to write was really thought provoking. that time asymmetry between content producer and consumer is a fascinating lens to view generative AI ethics through.

thank you!

any recommendations for explainers that operate on this level of abstraction?