The message of the post is what _should_ hopefully matter to a reader.
And, not the fact that it was written by an LLM.
I am a technical guy at heart; also an introverted extrovert. I hate writing docs that are to be written to satisfy someone else's metrics. For it to be a tickbox'ed item.
I delegate that to an LLM. I want to spend my time solving interesting challenges instead.
So, Mr. Cantrill, you got a problem with that? So be it.
> Please read past the LLM-ness of any given post.
I just can't. LLM assisted posts are often so long, and the hints are usually obvious right at the start.
They're so unpleasant to read. "It's not X, it's Y" etc are bad because the comparisons rarely add anything at all to the message. It's filler that wastes my time. At that point I'd rather see your original prompt.
Why should I invest several minutes of my day reading something if I've already seen evidence that the author doesn't respect my time?
It's not that an LLM wrote it so much as the author couldn't be bothered to clean it up and remove the garbage cliches before publishing it.
I hear ya. However, that ship has sailed a long time ago and succumbing to this very idea is exactly why puritans in any form will not survive the next 50 years.
> Please read past the LLM-ness of any given post. The message of the post is what _should_ hopefully matter to a reader. And, not the fact that it was written by an LLM.
No. I am interested in what a human has to say, not a clanker. If you don't wish to write that is fine, but don't hand it off to the slop machine and present it as though you did anything of value.
MM is basically up-selling his _Signal_ trust score. Granted, Signal/RedPhone predecessor upped the game but calling this E2E encrypted AI chat is a bit of a stretch..
> The people configuring WAF rules at CDNs tend to do a poor job understanding sites and services that discuss technical content. It's not just Cloudflare, Akamai has the same problem.
I agree. There is a business opportunity here. Right in the middle of your sentences.
Hint: Context-Aware WAF.
Many platforms have emerged in the last decade - some called it smart WAF, some called it nextgen WAF.. All vaporware garbage that consumes tons and tons of system resource and still manages to do a shit job of _actually_ WAF'ing web requests.
To be truly context-aware, you need to compute a priori about the situation - the user, the page, the interactions etc.
The message of the post is what _should_ hopefully matter to a reader.
And, not the fact that it was written by an LLM.
I am a technical guy at heart; also an introverted extrovert. I hate writing docs that are to be written to satisfy someone else's metrics. For it to be a tickbox'ed item.
I delegate that to an LLM. I want to spend my time solving interesting challenges instead.
So, Mr. Cantrill, you got a problem with that? So be it.
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