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Here's how I recognize AI text: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md
Btw you could rephrase the title as "The internet has no front door for bots" and it's correct, because it's how we want it.
The basic Joy-cons have no change to their battery capacity.
So there was nothing "limiting" them from making it already with user-replaceable batteries, they just didn't care enough until EU forced them (like all the smartphone brands). Love EU.
Price collusion, soft deception, "market stabilization", plausible deniability are ok, but obvious insurance fraud is a big no-no.
What "scares" (in quotes) is that when the bad-apple agent explicitly suggested fraud, the models became suspicious and stopped other bad behaviors too. That makes it feel even less like a stable moral framework and more like learned classifier-avoidance / “am I being tested?” behavior.
"There's no banner, no email, no strike count."
"Not low — zero."
"No upvotes, no downvotes, no replies, no traffic."
"No replies, no votes, not even a downvote"
"It wasn't one post — it was the pattern"
They changed the Sonnet 5 'Agentic search' benchmark graph overnight
"the generated code quietly assumes you know everything in the eight layers above"
Give it a couple years..
"Here’s the part that should bother you: the data already exists. We generate it every second. We paid for the sensors that produce it. None of it is missing."
"Scope that claim honestly, or the people who know these tools will rightly call it. The application layer — what you see and adjust day to day — opens up to non-specialists. The infrastructure underneath — the server, the network, the boring boxes — still needs an owner."
3 quietly
31 dashes —
ClaudeCode still has a 99.27 % uptime
ClaudeCowork has 99.52 % uptime
ClaudeForGovernment has 99.93 % uptime
"Five rounds. 200 bot sessions each. 1,000 in total. Each round was harder to catch than the last."
"For Round 2, we left Puppeteer at its defaults. No stealth plugins. No UA spoofing."
"Both tools failed. And I think it's important to say that out loud."
"If it's true, the tracker quietly stops. No events. No requests. Nothing. " "the tracker quietly exits and sends nothing." "They pad your totals while GA4 quietly undercounts"
Nobody used to write like this, nowadays everyone writes like this. The AI tells are too easy to spot. This immediately lowered my brand perception of Clickport.
"That is 278 wasted tabs. 278 wasted processes. 278 times I broke my focus for no reason."
"It has run quietly for years" overuse of quietly
"Same traffic, same users, half the money." rule of three
"a room, some cards, a results panel" rule of three
"the system quietly pays out far less" overuse of quietly
"A penalty like this isn’t a support ticket. It’s feedback about your pages, and the fix is on the pages." it's not X, it's Y.
If you need a reminder of AI tropes in writing: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md
"I don't need a four-minute explanation. I don't need context. I don't need a balanced discussion"
"Not a philosophical question. Not a medical question. Not a legal question."
"It was not a carefully considered decision, it was a primal gut reaction." it's not X, it's Y!
"The telephone. The microwave. The Internet."
"Google Home used to be one of my favourite gadgets. Not because it was smart. Because it was useful." it wasn't X, it was Y!
"Our modem was 14,400 bps. Yes, bits per second. Not megabits. Not gigabits. Not fiber."
"It was not massive. It was not scalable. It was not "cloud native."
"Every business would have a BBS. Every community would have one. Every company would run its own small digital place"
"The Web was the future. Not BBSs. Not CD-ROM encyclopedias. Not isolated digital islands. The Web."
It's not X, it's Y. And repetitions of three.
TFA was written by an AI without even search access, or it would know that all those are OLD deprecated models. AI Slop.
If the author doesn't even bother checking what his AI spit out, why would I read it? Useless article. I'm baffled that this reached the front page.