How can you tell? (honest question, I really can't)
The article makes strong points, includes real data and quotes, shows proof of work (sampling 100 Q&A), so does that even matter at this point? This doesn't feel like "slop" to me at all.
The text definitely the "jump from dramatic crescendo to dramatic crescendo" quality of certain LLM texts. If you read closely, it also has adjective choice that's more for dramatic than appropriate to the circumstances involves (a quality of LLM texts it also helpfully explains).
I don't know if this proves it's an LLM text or whether that style is simply spilling out everywhere.
Yea I also didn't think this was written by ai, it sounded human enough to me. It's kind of a bummer that there's all these patterns that LLM's follow in their output that cause people to have a knee jerk reaction and instantly call it ai slop. I know there is a ton of ai garbage out there these days, but I really couldn't tell with this article.
I had the same issue a few months ago with TSX files and ended up going back to Sublime. I just found out (after reading your comment and doing some searching) that Zed has a setting to force Prettier globally.
You can programmatically remove the watermark, either via a flag or by changing the source code.
> [1] No, you can do whatever you want with it since it’s MIT
But if you use it in a commercial project, they'll likely shame you if you don't pay - like what happened to OpenAI with Agent Builder:
> [2] Hey @OpenAI :) We just saw that you are using our open source library React Flow We offer startup discount codes :) Let us know if you are interested
Personally, I’d prefer them to use a dual license, but I understand that it would likely create unnecessary hurdles for devs who just want to try out the library.
The article makes strong points, includes real data and quotes, shows proof of work (sampling 100 Q&A), so does that even matter at this point? This doesn't feel like "slop" to me at all.