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A Server Called Mercury

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-06-05-a_server_called_mercury
13•zdw•4d ago

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wgd•1h ago
AI generated, in case anyone was still wondering after seeing the first couple paragraphs.

https://www.pangram.com/history/bbe78c25-0328-4f7e-a29c-f1c6...

maratc•1h ago
Kenneth was blogging before AI was able to generate.
wpm•1h ago
In the "Evidence" tab on that same page: "Human-written text of this length normally contains ~1 AI-associated patterns. This document is within that range."
wgd•1h ago
Yeah, the evidence feature is so terrible that it actively harms the overall reputation of Pangram. The main "is this AI or human?" classification is done with a machine learning model that works very well but has nothing (directly) to do with any of those stylistic cues it surfaces.

In any case, the Pangram link was just meant as objective corroboration of what's pretty blatantly obvious if you just read the text.

"Not cloud credits, not a managed platform, not a serverless function bobbing in someone else's abstraction."

"I used to work at Heroku. That sentence still does a lot of load-bearing work in how I think about computing."

"Here's the part that would have sounded like science fiction during my Heroku years: I didn't do most of the migration."

If you read these chunks of text and don't immediately feel the AI slop alarms blaring in the back of your head, you are perhaps underprepared for the modern internet.

I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA

265•eries•3h ago•195 comments

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425•raffael_de•10h ago•256 comments

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134•momentmaker•6h ago•46 comments

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121•meetpateltech•2h ago•25 comments

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8•paulpauper•34m ago•3 comments

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60•jimsojim•1h ago•53 comments

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83•tvissers•4h ago•67 comments

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71•febin•2d ago•12 comments

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39•NaOH•2d ago•19 comments

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208•ortusdux•3h ago•188 comments

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2524•Philpax•1d ago•2020 comments