Firstly, I find the tone of voice immensely irritating. It sounds like a mixture of LinkedIn broetry, a TEDx talk, and marketing speak. That’s irritating when a human does it, but it’s especially bad when AI applies it in cases where it’s jarringly wrong for the topic at hand.
I recently saw this example:
> This isn’t just “nicer syntax” — it’s a fundamental shift in how your software thinks.
— https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44873145
It was talking about datetime representation in software development but it has the tone of voice of somebody earnestly gesticulating on stage while explaining how they are going to solve world hunger. This is like the uncanny valley except instead of it making me uneasy it just pisses me off.
Secondly, it’s so incredibly overused. You’ll see “it’s not X—it’s Y” three times in three consecutive paragraphs. It’s irritating the first time, so when I see it throughout a whole article, I get an exceptionally low opinion of whoever published it.
Having said that, this article wasn’t particularly bad.
The fact is written by AI does add a layer of frustration because you know someone wrote something more human and more real, but all you get to see is what the model made of it after digestion.
(I find there's a growing push-back against being fed AI-anything, so when this is suspected it seems like it generates outsized reactions)