alt Hacker NewsHad to stop reading when the article devolved into Claude spam. "defensible in isolation," "honestly ranked," ugh. Please write your own blog post.
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renlo • yesterday at 10:37 PM
My strategy these days is to scan and look for the tells and click out when I see them. Mine was the same "honestly ranked, with no silver bullets on offer". I suspect in less than a year we won't be able to tell the difference.
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paulpauper • yesterday at 10:56 PM
Yeah, the most obvious giveaway is to ask yourself, "is this how a human would actually write?"
Yep. Such a classic Claude flavored product. Good ideas wrapped in cotton candy.
I often read as much as 1000 words thinking to myself: “this is smooth”, but then think to myself “Is this my friend Opus 4.8 or now Opus 5?.
In this case the rhetorical neatness is unmistakable especially in the beginnings and endings of paragraphs: “Here is the constructive turn, honestly ranked, with no silver bullets on offer.”
Yes: and that is actually a smoking gun.