I honestly didnt notice it was ai until after i read the comments. I didnt really care for the article that much since it reminded me of a less knowledgeable person summarizing what a more knowledgeable person said. Like reading an article written by one of those game journalists who hasnt figured out how to use the game controls yet.
I figured it was written by a marketing person on behalf of an engineer or something but after reading comments it was clearly the ai trying to dress up the technical info in some kinda low level appeal to everyone regardless of their technical prowess and that makes no sense to me since non technical people won't care about the article at all at best its basically an ad for people to sell on their platform but im not sure why it would be posted here instead of facebook or twitter or anywhere you might reach the kinda people who sell on shopify.
Instead they took a subject matter that would appeal to the hn audience and then dressed it up in a way that would annoy that same audience. If your going to bother using ai to make your ad pretty you could at least use the ai to target the correct audience in the way they would appreciate.
It was the sort of "cached denormalization" that held my attention, plus some of the details on what locked when, etc earned a bookmark as I plan to read it again. Maybe I'm sort of numb to the style now, I'm actually curious to think about this with my conflicting views about AI but chatting "wrongly" about AI is unpopular here.
I figured it was written by a marketing person on behalf of an engineer or something but after reading comments it was clearly the ai trying to dress up the technical info in some kinda low level appeal to everyone regardless of their technical prowess and that makes no sense to me since non technical people won't care about the article at all at best its basically an ad for people to sell on their platform but im not sure why it would be posted here instead of facebook or twitter or anywhere you might reach the kinda people who sell on shopify.
Instead they took a subject matter that would appeal to the hn audience and then dressed it up in a way that would annoy that same audience. If your going to bother using ai to make your ad pretty you could at least use the ai to target the correct audience in the way they would appreciate.