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randomtoast | on: AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder
N=2 form the same author: https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/24/first-1000-lines-det...

> AI is an in-context learner, not a standards enforcer.

> The AI is not judging your code. It is learning from it.

> Speed without structure is not speed. It is borrowed time.

> This is not about premature optimization or over-engineering. It is about giving the AI the patterns it needs to work effectively on your behalf.

> This is not a theoretical distinction. It is the single most important practical reality of working with AI coding tools in 2026.

Its not this, its that.

> But here is the part nobody wants to hear: the reverse is equally true.

> The result was transformative.

> Here is why.

If you want I can provide N=3 with the same AI pattern and phrases again.

amelius | parent
AI learned this figure of speech from humans. Even the frequency in which it is used is copied from humans. So you can't really use it to determine if something is written by an AI or not.
lelanthran | root | parent | next
> AI learned this figure of speech from humans. Even the frequency in which it is used is copied from humans.

Can you point to examples of these patterns with the same frequency in any written content dated any time prior to 2024?

jsheard | root | parent | next
LLMs might follow the frequencies of the training data in their raw form, but nobody uses raw LLMs, they use models which have been RLHFed to hell and back to bias them towards specific patterns. Then newer models were trained on the output of those RLHFed models, and further RLHFed, and so on, and so on.
amelius | root | parent
The H in RLHF stands for human. If humans didn't use the expression, then the LLM wouldn't.
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randomtoast | root | parent | next
If you think that the article is written by human or that is is unclear, please go ahead. Others here on HN also have pointed out that the author shoots out such lengthy blog posts every day. And you can also see the typical emoji AI slop here: https://www.ivanturkovic.com/services/

But I have no issue with your argumentation whatsoever, it is just that I think there is more than sufficient evidence, and you think there is not.

aerhardt | root | parent
Bro, it reeks of AI.
amelius | root | parent
I find this a better argument.