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Comment by kachapopopow | Hacker News Reader

I just can't get over how ridicioulus the "no ai" statement is.

I really love the part where llm.txt has the same notice, something humans will never read, or the fact that llm.txt exists considering that there is distaste for AI in every part of this llm generated book.

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"Not generated by AI" is something that every programmer everywhere is going to say about their own work, even when it's obviously AI generated. I've started to publicly call people out when I see they've posted something on social media (LinkedIn, etc.) when I see they've made an AI-generated post. The fraud has to stop.

There's also the option of embracing it.

https://github.com/Lillecarl/lix/commit/9ac72bbd0c7802ca83a9...

I'm not ashamed to use AI if it improves my output, people draw the line of "acceptable use" differently just like drug addicts talk shit about each other's drugs to justify their own. I think honesty is more important than cleanliness.

I stopped using linkedin once the mediapipe epidemic started and everyone who could type pip install mediapipe could write a half baked hand and face gesture demo to show themselves as the "cool programmer".

Kind of hard unfortunately, now when one gets evaluated how much we're improving our daily work with AI, when the annual feedback meeting comes.

The no AI devs will get a "needs improvement" report.

I've talked to people who got fired for not embracing AI, so go out there and say how much more productive you are even if it's a lie.

The "no AI" statement reminds me of the Chinese idiom: "there are no 300 taels of silver here" (there is no money buried here). It's a clumsy way of denying something.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A4%E5%9C%B0%E7%84%A1%E...

> I just can't get over how ridicioulus the "no ai" statement is

You don't have to. I'm sure there are lots of other communities that welcome low-effort slop with no effort put into it.

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