Robert A. Hill1d ago

I don't think I have ever read a more concise and yet thorough explanation of my own observations, conclusions, and fears as a 20+ year veteran technology professional and 15 year SRE veteran.

We are actively tearing down the hard fought wins for ourselves and our customers in the chase for the MBAs and business idiots and the institutional knowledge and processes that solved huge problems are the victims of this AI circlejerk.

https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/

The AI Great Leap Forward

In 1958, Mao ordered every village to produce steel. The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Today's top-down AI mandates are producing the same pattern: ba...

Han, Not Solo
Show threadGlyph1d ago
@robert I have casually made this same observation but holy shit this is incredibly detailed and thorough
Show threadAddison20h ago
@glyph @robert I have been subsequently informed that the article is likely produced in part or in whole using LLMs: https://lobste.rs/c/2ioo8a

I don't have the means to detect this, and I'm deferring trust to others who do. I'm so sick of this.
The AI Great Leap Forward

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Show threadGlyph
@addison @robert I have been tricked by AI writing before and this case doesn’t look nearly as clear-cut. it could of course still be (and the author doesn’t give me the highest confidence) but re-reading it is missing a lot of the really obvious tells. I am still willing to give it the benefit of the doubt; this could easily just be a few stylistic tics that someone exposed to a lot of LLM-extruded text might adopt
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Show threadGlyph5h ago
@addison @robert throwing snippets of this at a bunch of AI detectors seems to show a pretty high likelihood of human authorship. Not that that’s totally dispositive either, but more evidence for at least the benefit of the doubt