It should be embarrassing to people that they can’t even write a whole argument out by hand. It’s not that hard. All you have to do is believe in it.
This blog post is just selling the idea of engineering as craft. It exists to make us feel good about having skills and to get us to regurgitate our priors in the comments. We should at least demand that the sales pitch be manual.
So, I immediately write-off anyone who produces their writing with LLMs, as it is quite apparent that they are not a serious, thoughtful person and are instead just cosplaying as one via LLM. The fact that they can't see this (or, worse, think the slop actually makes them look good) only further proves the point. I'd much rather read flawed but genuine writing over vacuous AI slop, and surely most people are the same.
The other day someone posted in reddit about a repo that they seem to have put a lot of thought into. But the post and all comments were AI slop. I told them that while the project looked promising, I couldn't take them seriously on account of the slop writing.
They replied thanking me. Then the next day followed up to say that I changed their life - no more Ai-generated writing when interacting with other humans. I hope they were serious about it.
I’ve recently started writing again, after well over a decade, so I’m not very up to date on how things are done and perceived. FWIW, I write these on Google Docs and then port them over to my site. Earlier posts had an AI disclaimer saying I used Google Docs which presumably uses AI for spellchecking and obvious grammar issues but it ticked people off so I’ve stopped adding those.
I suppose there's always been some market for LinkedIn lunatics, and likewise for any sort of "influencers", MLM, etc... And I've always written-off any of those people as well. Perhaps this is just a new flavour of the same thing...
Dumb people will continue to be grifted, and thoughtful people will continue to use these posts/materials as a good filter for who deserves their attention.