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Also from the article:

> "Claude clearly made things worse" &emdash; the main claim

This article was clearly generated by AI, yet I found no mention/attribution of that by author.

How likely is it than someone who vibe codes articles would also vibe code the underlying analysis and be eager to accept an outcome that is highly validating of that person’s workflow? I’d say very.

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The &emdash; is probably human error, other parts of the HTML correctly use — or Unicode em-dashes. Also: https://github.com/alexispurslane/rsync-analysis/commit/740b...

He did admit as much:

> "The scripts used to fetch the data, collate it into a DuckDB database file, construct the views on that DB, and then do the statistical analysis on that data, were indeed written by GLM 5.1, as was the HTML and much of the original prose for the final report webpage you're looking at right now."


But: "After posting this on Hacker News and recieving [sic] almost no substantive input, discussion, or response on the actual content of the article, I decided to rewrite all of the prose in my own voice. If anyone complains about my verbosity or sentence structure — as they usually do, which is the reason I originally let the AI write the prose, among other reasons obsoleted by templating — they can go fuck themselves."

So rewritten in his own voice. Maybe the m-dashes are from GLM, maybe from the author.


Are the numbers wrong? That's the only relevant thing here.

Also, humans do use em dashes, just FYI.


> Are the numbers wrong? That's the only relevant thing here.

Data without interpretation is irrelevant, and correct numbers can be interpreted wrongly, either on purpose or by mistake.

I’m not saying any of that happened here, only that “are the numbers wrong” is not the only thing that is relevant.

> humans do use em dashes, just FYI.

Your parent comment is not complaining about em dashes, they are pointing out the article has a literal “&emdash;” in it.


Yes, I do for example.

And the author discussed the use of AI pretty exhaustively in point 0 of the post.




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