It literally is just next word prediction. If you don't understand that, everything else you're thinking and saying is based on an incorrect foundation.
Take a step back and really take a look at what's going on. You are not thinking clearly.
Massively different from algorithmic doom scrolling feeds.
I would call HN a type of social media lite, but not the type of social media that's leading to generation-wide mental health issues in children/teens.
Yes, social media creates useful idiots, you are correct. And also possibly one of them, if you're arguing that it somehow makes people smarter or more informed.
Social media is so, so much worse than anything a government could come up with. This is a good thing for the world even if there are ulterior motives at play.
Everyone is free to be as snooty as they like. If a report is harder to read/understand/validate because the author just yolo'ed it with an LLM, that's on the report author, not on the maintainers.
It's not okay to foist work onto other people because you don't think LLM slop is a problem. It is absolutely a problem, and no amount of apologizing and pontificating is going to change that.
Grow up and own your work. Stop making excuses for other people. Help make the world better, not worse. It's obvious that LLMs can be useful for this purpose, so people should use them well and make the reports useful. Period.
It can be correct and slop at the same time. The reporter could have reported it in a way that makes it clear a human reviewed and cared about the report.
Slop is a function of how the information is presented and how the tools are used. People don't care if you use LLMs if they don't tell you can use them, they care when you send them a bunch of bullshit with 5% of value buried inside it.
If you're reading something and you can tell an LLM wrote it, you should be upset. It means the author doesn't give a fuck.
The people who don't care about LLM slop being shoved down their throat at every turn are the "weirdos" here. The project might not be slop, but the website certainly is, and it's perfectly reasonable for people to stop reading immediately and decide that they don't care about what could be an otherwise useful project when they determine that the author didn't give enough of a shit to even write the text on the website themselves.
Usually it's because the kid won't wear headphones. Not really an excuse, but a lot of the time the kid is just going to do what they want. What the parents should do in that situation is make them watch without sound, but that's harder than the alternative, so they just do whatever.
Are you implying that someone who prefers Eclipse is more likely to be a good software engineer than someone who prefers Emacs? If so, that is so hilariously backwards that I can't even begin to understand the types of experiences that you must've had.
I am sure that you're objectively wrong if that is what you're saying.
Definitely the first two, but the latter is not particularly common at most firms. It's hard to put in the type of thought that you need when you're working that much. It's not slinging power points.
Take a step back and really take a look at what's going on. You are not thinking clearly.