Wow, it appears Sam Ruby has fully cooked his brain with Claude. I just took a glimpse at his blog and it appears to be entirely slop now. Like literally just incoherent posts copied and pasted wholesale from LLM sessions. (Sam is, among other things, the author of the official Rails book.)
https://intertwingly.net/blog/
He also apparently has an “agent” running around submitting this slop and commenting on it on his behalf. See @pushcx’s comment here: https://lobste.rs/s/0yc3r0/lobste_rs_on_spinel#c_jxdrb6
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