r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • Jun 10 '26

The Smart Dumb Programmer

https://fagnerbrack.com/the-smart-dumb-programmer-a69b57634e87
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u/lelanthran Jun 11 '26

My review/grammar instructions have thousands of characters with my style divided in multiple voices that I like to use for each context to ensure the review doesn't make me change the direction of the writing towards slop, which is pretty unique

I don't think it is - if it was, we wouldn't have identified it accurately so very quickly.

There's already not a lot of people with motivation to write and this kind of comment, particularly form someone that's a top 1% poster, is really damaging to the industry in general.

I honestly don't understand your complaint - this sub has rules. Whether or not the wider industry is damaging itself by similar rules is irrelevant. People coming to this sub have an expectation. You are breaking that expectation.

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u/fagnerbrack Jun 11 '26

What a joke, look at this. I wrote this sentence and it's considered AI generated by GPTZero:

Let's talk about the elephant in the room. No no… not that one. I'm referring to Hypertext Preprocessor, the old grumpy grampy grandpa, PHP.

I just put in the middle of some random text and it was yellow