Excuse me. I consider the writing within technical manuals strictly superior and meticulously written. It's fairly enjoyable to read what engineers/subject matter experts write about their own creations. Comparing those to LLM generated patronizing word vomit is a shame.

Depends on the technical manual and their culture. Red Hat had a culture of excellent writers, and their stuff is usually readable if not always enjoyable.

That just makes me sad. We'll never see those days again :(

Right? It's so short and...just ends. Been too fatigued reading essays on just about everything. I loved this one.

Alas Medium interrupted my journey to that nirvana.

I have blocked medium.com because of that. Same as the SEO spam dev.to.

It's actually interesting how often I end up seeing the uBlock 'blocked' page because of it. And how blind I end up being to the serp domains.

I of course can click the bypass button on a case by case basis.

I just replace medium.com with scribe.rip in the URL.

Strangely enough I enjoyed this abrupt ending, too. The lack of typical "It's not the end — it's just the beginning!" turned out surprisingly refreshing.

FWIW, the actual apology is well written.

Although little note at the very end explains why:

> This note is in response to emails from Eli Grey to Chrome leadership from October, 2023

In other words, he wrote this because he was forced to.

that's going a bit far, no?

And who or what is "originality.ai" supposed to be that makes it an authority on AI provenance (an unsolvable problem)?

Addy told me that he didn't use AI to write his apology. I can see why people might suspect otherwise though.

That site happily flags writing older than the modern AI era. It's a worthless grift, which has unfortunately suckered many.

lol you believe that site for more than a second?

Thanks for mentioning him. I gained some new perspective and felt inspired by looking around at his work and Twitter.

What a dim witted argument. Go read a book on macroeconomics.

My girlfriend works for Google. I just moved to the Bay Area and I can definitely relate. She gives me tours of the Mountain View headquarters (and the campus) quite often and I just feel... it's too tranquil... it's too nice... it's too serene and it's just such a privilege to be here. The atmosphere is calm, the location is on beautiful rolling hills of California, the food is fantastic, there is a strong focus on biking/walking/community. Just lovely.

> Good, evil, depends on who is counting.

I'm gonna use that statement from now on.

That fits the candy store reference pretty well - the candy is not doing the kid any favors.

You can send Mullvad an envelope of cash (not kidding) and then no one will know (hopefully)!