Recessions without an external shock are rare. But you could say the rest of the economy is in stagnation. I‘m expecting real recession as soon as the LLM bubble begins to burst.
Not from people using that same phrasing twice within a few sentences.
"""
No warning. No traffic spike. Just… more money gone.
That’s when I finally looked at Hetzner.
I’ve seen too many backend systems fail for the same reasons — and too many teams learn the hard way.
So I turned those incidents into a practical field manual:
real failures, root causes, fixes, and prevention systems.
No theory. No fluff. Just production.
"""
It's clearly slop, they immediately use effectively the same one again:
"""
That last line isn’t a joke. There were charges I genuinely couldn’t explain. Elastic IPs we forgot to release. Snapshots from instances that no longer existed. CloudFront distributions someone set up for testing.
"""
No, human writers don't repeat this pattern every single paragraph. They use it at most across in a whole article.
Repetition is a very common tool in writing (ie 'I have a dream').
I'm just irked that it's being called out for AI slop because "I feel it in my bones!!"
There's a good chance it was written using AI -- should that matter? If the content is wrong/sucks, say that instead. If you're going to dismiss all AI assisted writing: good luck in the next decade.
Reading the same (very annoying marketing blog) style of writing gets old fast.
It’s like suddenly all memes are just the same meme and nobody makes their own memes because “AI does it better”.
The style of writing is an intrinsic part of communication, if you can’t critique that then what is content? We’re not machines sharing pieces of data with each other.
AI-written text is not necessarily incorrect, but if the author did not take their time to remove the AI slop, they probably did not put much effort into it elsewhere. In addition, the text is often over two times longer than without the slop, which disrespects the reader's time (even worse in this case, since a significant fraction of the article is an ad for the author's books).
"Unfortunately, the [Hetzner] CPX22is available only in eu-central and ap-southeast, but if that’s OK with you it is the best value and fastest overall."
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