Aaron

Writer and anti-software software engineer.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@BrianAcity This is just the English department. Without the moralizing. Remove the moralizing and suddenly every school in America has a "Lyceum."

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@kerem This is amazing, fantastic job!

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@maryamyy0 @luis_vale IT"S MY SEXBOX AND HER NAME IS SONY

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@thomaspaulmann no one wants to pay 200/year for an AI slop home screen.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@ElderScrolls ES5 released in 2011
ES6 announced in 2018
ES6 name announced in 2026

Fifteen years for a name.

At this rate, we'll get the game in 2046 with an engine and combat from a game released in 2006.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@davefarley77 The fundamental problem with TDD is that knowing what you're building has to come first. And not a single developer has worked at a company where the product people or the business decision makers are competent enough to provide that information.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@pinutos @runfrommepls No. But having read many series of a dozen or more books, I know I don't like them. So why spend 200 hours reading another.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@pinutos @runfrommepls A hundred thousand average isn't bad. Still twenty books is too many. The Rise and Fall of Nazism explains the entire history of 19th and early 20th century Germany in less than an eigth of 2 million.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Here’s the thing about spotting the horrendous, soulless AI-generated writing infecting every corner of the internet now: it’s not just about the words — it’s about the patterns.

And once you start noticing them, you can’t unsee them.

The unnecessary em dashes. The polished transitions. The examples given in groups of three.

The weird metaphors that kind of make sense but kind of don’t — like a parachute opening inside a submarine.

The load-bearing use of the term “load-bearing.”

The random one sentence paragraphs.

The way a bunch of bland gibberish is quietly reframed as a profound insight.

The on-going and un-necessary hyphenation of every-day words that really don’t need it.

The cliches.

Read that again.

Cliches.

Louder for people in the back.

Tons of cliches.

That’s not a typo.

Sit with that for a moment.

And the biggest red flag? Asking yourself a question and answering it.

Because honestly? No sentient human writes like this.

And truthfully? If you can’t identify these red flags, you might not actually be sentient yourself.

Because really? If this formatting doesn’t immediately strike you as awkward and artificial, it means you don’t read books.

Ever.

Seriously.

But here’s where it gets interesting:

It doesn’t.

The point has been made but I’ll keep going. That’s what AI writing is all about.

Let’s delve into real problem. It isn’t the technology. It’s the people using it because they’re too retarded to generate an original thought of their own.

That’s not thoughtfulness. It’s intellectual laziness wearing digital makeup.

It doesn’t make the internet more fun. It makes me want to throw my phone in the river and forsake all of humanity and live as a hermit in the woods for the rest of my life.

Seriously this shit fills me with despair. I’m not kidding.

And the distinction matters.

Especially when you’re saying the distinction matters without actually drawing a distinction.

But here’s what nobody tells you.

When you ask a machine to manufacture your personality, you’re not just automating your writing. You’re quietly announcing that you’re a boring, insipid dork with nothing interesting to say.

Let that sink in.

The uncomfortable truth?

AI didn’t turn these people into tedious midwits.

It quietly revealed what they already were.

And perhaps — just perhaps — that’s quietly the most important takeaway of all.

But what do you think? Let's unpack this together in the comments. 👇

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@oddsonevery @66cjg @unusual_whales "not running the business" Fucking hell, then everyone with half a million on AMEX cards and a 40k/year job are in the black.

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@lucaisdesigning It's ugly?

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@ChadMoran @KristyT Ah, thanks, both of you!

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@dnrrom They listen to audio books at 2x speed and call it reading.

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@Mike_M_Klotz The Hummer. I wouldn't trust FCA to build a Hot Wheel without transmission issues.

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@ReclaimTheNetHQ Damn, this sounds like a brilliant idea.

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@chakmillion He also cheated and attempted to dupe the NBA and its fans. And uses the NBA to dodge taxes all around the world. Fuck this guy.

[Aaron @MonoProvidence]

@WesleyBancroft It's Alfred but with a subscription fee and AI slop features.

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@Henry38679666 @jeffwellz Watch Korra again, bud. The animation is vastly worse in quality in SH. Only a few of the action scenes are decent frame rate and dynamic.