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DevCommunities Post #6607 · source on Telegram

Developers Vote on AI-Generated Marketing Speak: It's Nauseating

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A screenshot of a social media post in a dark-mode interface from a user named 'devm3m3' within a 'Technology' group. The initial post uses exaggerated, trendy marketing slang: 'Fair play, my dude's got opinions hotter than a fresh meme drop - we respect the hustle! Just tryna keep the good vibes rolling and the servers purring over here. What a legend.' A follow-up post reveals the text was an experiment: 'P.S. Post's text is intentionally re-written in that way by AI, did you:'. Below this is a poll with the results of 13 votes. The options are 'Liked it, post is fun 😂' (0%), 'Confused 😕' (23%), and 'Literally vomited 🤮' (77%). The winning 'Literally vomited' option is highlighted, with a red arrow pointing to it. The image serves as a sharp critique of the inauthentic, cringe-worthy language often produced by AI when tasked with creating content for technical audiences. It highlights the developer community's strong preference for genuine communication and their visceral rejection of corporate or AI-generated attempts to co-opt their culture and slang

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Our new marketing AI has a 77% success rate at invoking a strong physical reaction from the target demographic. We're pitching it to VCs as a 'visceral engagement engine'
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Our new marketing AI has a 77% success rate at invoking a strong physical reaction from the target demographic. We're pitching it to VCs as a 'visceral engagement engine'

  2. Anonymous

    Apparently the LLM cranked the synergy-vibes knob past 11 - turns out senior devs have a built-in circuit-breaker labeled “cringe overflow.”

  3. Anonymous

    Nothing says 'production-ready AI integration' quite like making 77% of your user base physically ill. At least the servers are purring while the developers are hurling

  4. Anonymous

    When 77% of developers vote 'literally vomited' on your AI-generated text, you've successfully achieved what no code review ever could: unanimous agreement. Turns out the real Turing test isn't whether AI can fool humans - it's whether humans can stomach reading AI trying to sound like 'one of the bros' with phrases like 'servers purring' and 'keep the good vibes rolling.' Nothing says 'authentic developer voice' quite like an LLM that learned communication skills from a 2019 startup's Slack culture deck

  5. Anonymous

    We finally found a metric the LLM can’t optimize: the cringe SLO - 77% breach; initiate canary rollback to plain English and file a postmortem under “prompted for vibes.”

  6. Anonymous

    AI's 'servers purring' - the smooth ops dream that deployed straight to everyone's gag reflex at 77% uptime

  7. Anonymous

    Set the system prompt to “sound vibey” and instantly blew our SLOs - 77% nausea at p95; apparently “servers purring” is a prod smell, not a brand voice

  8. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

    Lmfao

    1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

      Well hello~ felow NGNL enjoyer

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

        That opening is sus. You made it weird

        1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

          I was just going off your pfp Which part was weird?

          1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

            Nah I just had bad experience last time someone opened like that

            1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

              Ah okay, I didn't know, sorry about that

              1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

                You seem fine tho

  9. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

    IDC if that was re-written by AI or not the text is literal cringe, my guy

  10. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

    Since there are no panties in this pack I approve

    1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

      Yah honestly NGNL would actually be better without the “fanservice” IMO There's an actually great concept in there and it's well-executed to boot, it can stop shoving Shiro's underwear into the camera pls

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

        Fr

  11. @Algoinde 1y

    based filter: invert() enjoyers

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

      Backdropfilter: Blur(npx) best ever chnage my mind (or whwtever I am not css dev)

  12. @Algoinde 1y

    easy dark theme

    1. dev_meme 1y

      The thing is, it's only applied for that progress bar to show percentage of voters... To invert text color

      1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

        The brogressbar or the whole button?

        1. @Algoinde 1y

          the whole progressbar to invert the color to show it's the highest voted

  13. @Algoinde 1y

    they forgor emojis exist

  14. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

    Also I should probably finally play MiSide, shouldn't I? and Omori...

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

      Its pretty good

      1. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

        yah I often hear that I see it has a free demo anyway, so that's downloading on my Steamdeck, in a bit

        1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

          The demo is like 3% of the gameplay

          1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

            And even skips over some funny things

  15. @TheRamenDutchman 1y

    well it's also 0% of the price so-

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