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oceansky | on: Mojo 1.0
AI generated first image does not give me much confidence.

Lastest OpenCV 5 release notes also had a lot of LLMisms.

I guess that's the new normal. Still, I am very hopeful for Mojo.

redlewel | parent | next
I know right? Would be better to have a banner with the language logo than some totally out of place aislop image, almost makes you think this is a random person's blog and not the official Mojo site
ryukoposting | root | parent | next
Almost? That's exactly what it did! At first I thought this was some bozo's toylang mysteriously on the front page of HN garnished with a wall of LLM technobabble.
fwip | root | parent
I believe Mojo has been primarily using AI-generated imagery of its mascot for several years now, which politically aligns with its pivot to being a language for AI development.
ainch | root | parent | next
I wouldn't say there was a pivot, AI development has explicitly been the goal since launch.
fwip | root | parent
Oh, gotcha. I thought I recalled reading early material that emphasized the flexibility of Mojo emitting MLIR for many tasks, but it's possible that that was either pre-launch, or that I got confused when reading about MLIR itself.
sph | root | parent | next
A lot of fancy words to say this is slop.
fwip | root | parent
I was trying hard to be diplomatic. :P
Forgeties79 | root | parent
Oh wow a business pivoted to AI what a shocker lmao (not directed at you/mocking you, to be clear)
bourbonproof | parent | next
I spotted the exact same thing with the AI image. makes the whole thing immediately feel cheap, it's wild
winding | root | parent | next
They’ve had this branding for some years, at least since 2023. I doubt at that time it was fully AI generated, although I have no proof of it. I always looked at it as being heavily AI inspired.
BeetleB | root | parent
> makes the whole thing immediately feel cheap, it's wild

Hard to decide if the blog post is wild, or people's visceral reactions to it.

I've said it before: I believe the obsession in trying to figure out if something is AI generated will soon be classified as a mental disorder.

boesboes | root | parent | next
nah, i just have no interest in this endless slop. It's so fucking obvious, so cheap, and soooo disrespectful imo

I think AI use will soon be classified as a health risk worse then smoking, drug and gambling.

wiseowise | root | parent
There’s no obsession. It’s an obvious, ugly slop.
BeetleB | root | parent
Ugly images in blog posts were common before LLMs came around. People on HN didn't feel compelled to point it out each time.
galonk | parent | next
"Normal" keeps getting more and more depressing.

Did they think that image would make them look fun or interesting? Because it's exactly the opposite.

brendoelfrendo | root | parent
These AI illustrations are the nee "corporate Memphis." Images of flat, minimalist people in bold colors used to be the sign that whatever text accompanied them was low-value drivel. Nowadays, I associate the same with AI generated imagery. I'm not sure why the folks doing the writing (if, indeed, any of the writing was done by a human) don't seem to clock this when the audience seems to be able to catch on almost immediately.
pnt12 | parent | next
A lot of software engineers don't have a good feel for this kind of aesthetics or social outcomes. They're playing with their new toy (which is very exciting, let's not ignore that), they're happy it does stuff, but ignore that it can be perceived as ugly and cheap by others. As well as totally bland - every other cheap company is using it too.
boesboes | parent | next
Yeah, I just assumed that it was some sort of image generation crap >_< It's funny how this affects me tbh, I think it has almost the same effect as if there would be a boner-pills ad there or something. Or a 'subscribe to read' popups.

It's all just spam, filler content and I did not ask for that.

flexagoon | parent | next
> Lastest OpenCV 5 release notes also had a lot of LLMisms.

Yeah, that really made me triple-check if I visited a fake SEO spam website instead of the official OpenCV one. The fact that their blog looks exactly the same every single low-effort AI content farm doesn't help either.

FrustratedMonky | parent | next
Isn't Mojo expressly for building AI frameworks? It isn't really needed or special as a language by-itself. It's main purpose is to make it easier to program these high end graphics cards for AI.

So maybe an AI image isn't the worst.

andy99 | root | parent
People who work with AI all the time should be the most finely tuned in to how sloppy it looks and when to use it and when not.
jibal | parent
> I guess that's the new normal.

Yes, so basing confidence on it is totally bogus. Such comments are cheap and add nothing to the discussion of Mojo reaching 1.0 status.

phoghed | root | parent | next
Finding some unit of the thing one can actually understand and using it to issue a shallow dismissal is canonically the most Hacker News possible comment. And the rest of the commenters generally love it.

Not to worry though, if there’s nothing webshit accessible in the content there’s surely something wrong with the CSS to complain about!

brendoelfrendo | root | parent
Well, not really; people have long ignored overly corporate or low-effort news releases because. The presence of certain language or stock images is a signal (and I would argue a valid one) that the rest of the content is equally low-effort and not worthy of attention. AI images are just the newest version of that signal. I think it behooves the writers of these blog posts/news releases/community updates/etc. to reflect on why they continue to include these signals that their content is low-effort or low-value if they actually want their audience to read it.

Unless the idea is that, in 2026, you assume your audience is an LLM that is ingesting and summarizing your content for the end user and that no human will actually read what you wrote so you don't actually need to care about signals of quality or trustworthiness. The AI generated illustration seems kind of superfluous if that's the case, though.