is it just me, or is reading LLM-generated text really annoying?

It feels like I'm reading the same thing over and over again, in different contexts about different things.

It is. Once you see the pattern, you cannot unsee it. Same thing happens with every form of slop, it's just instantly recognizable -- synthetic output, devoid of consciousness, effort, thought, reason, judgement, intention, intelligence, et cetera.

I can understand writers, painters, musicians and so on being worried (or even excited, God have mercy) about generative garbage because, respectfully, the overwhelming majority of them hasn't got a fucking clue that "AI" is a misnomer, and that PBM -- probabilistic bullshit machine -- is the lore-accurate name.

But programmers? No. Cant be forgiven. We need a purge, people. Bring out the badges of dishonor, we shall [REDACTED] their asses into [EXTREMELY CENSORED] with iron-fisted clockwise handedness, which will inevitably devolve into wyber carfare with a burrowed frow in the urcune aniversity.

Last paragraph is a demonstration of what 'reason' supposedly stands for, get it or dont: purpose is a seven-edged anus driller of chaos.

just keep in mind that LLMs

1) are still very dumb

2) were trained on public internet data, provided, on average, by average human beings.

Indeed. Somehow when an LLM talks about something, it is very good at scratching the entire surface of the topic, without ever going deeper. It feels really unnatural.

It annoys me when some non-technical people present LLM content to me to explain things. I mean, I could also ask an LLM for clarification (and I often do).