I hate searching for things and reading the top articles today. It's either mainstream crap or LLM generated. Some of it might not be LLM generated, but it reads that way because people use these things so much they write like them now!

So I wrote a simple web form that makes it easy to restrict searches by year ranges:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/...

It's pretty amazing, being able to use modern search engines and actually find really interesting articles that would normally be lost to time.

@jestdotty I must have missed that Rossman .. will look it up. As far as humans, I dunno man. I have friends who love this stuff. They use chatbots over search engines. One refused to read that particular article because of my opening paragraph stating "...too often incorrectly referred to as Artificial Intelligence..."

He's not an unintelligent guy though, but I think he firmly has an AI god.

I think devs fall into camps of not liking them and absolutely loving them and using them for everything. Even the ones who don't like them, still use them, because if you don't, you'll just fall behind at work. But you know those tests are auto-generated and are just a growing pile of technical debt now.

It's an interesting era.

AI slop enshitification