alt Hacker Newsvery cool and the person has the skills to do that. sad to see how the fully AI generated "why this matters" section in the blog gives a lingering vibe of slop.
very cool and the person has the skills to do that. sad to see how the fully AI generated "why this matters" section in the blog gives a lingering vibe of slop.
> sad to see how the fully AI generated "why this matters" section in the blog gives a lingering vibe of slop.
I am quoting this verbatim from offending section:
Why this matters
The traditional eBPF workflow is: write C for the BPF side, compile with clang, then write Go or Rust or Python for the userspace side. Two languages, separate build steps, multiple processes.
With Whistler 1.0, the workflow is: write Lisp. The compiler, loader, and userspace application share a process. You can develop at the REPL — modify a probe, re-eval the form, see results immediately. The feedback loop is instant.
Seems like a reasonable paragraph. I sincerely feel we must stop tainting things with the "slop" pejorative unless it really seems egregious. Also in 2026 is it easy to be so confident about what was generated by a human, edited by a human or generated by an LLM ?
My main metric is: does the paragraph add value ? It does to me as a summary.