It's never a slam-dunk with AI-generated content, but some of the signs I notice are:
- Constant bulleted lists with snappy, non-punctuated items.
- Single word sentences to emphasize a point ("It was disciplined. Technical. Forensic.")
- The phrasing. e.g. the part about submitting to Reddit: "This response was disproportionate to the activity involved: a first-time technical post, written with precision, submitted to the relevant forum, and not yet visible to any other user." Who on earth says "written with precision" about their own writing?
To be clear, I don't think it's a fabricated account. I also don't think it was a one-shot. OP probably iterated on it with GPT for quite some time.
This has GPT written all over it: "That’s not just a runtime bug. That’s a reliability risk baked into the ecosystem."
For whatever reason, it constantly uses rhetorical reclassification like “That’s not just X. That’s Y.” when it's trying to make a point.
In GPT's own words:
```
### Why GPT uses it so often:
- It sounds insightful and persuasive with minimal complexity.
- It gives an impression of depth by moving from the obvious to the interpretive.
- It matches common patterns in blog posts, opinion writing, and analyst reports.
```
I think that last point is probably the most important.
The whole site is sketchy. A PhD and a JD. All these high level positions at well-known places. A website with very vague claims about heroically saving things. Almost no google presence other than this site. And 4 LinkedIn connections. Maybe I'm just cynical, but it's pegging my BS meter.
Nope, BS meter is correct. You can find the 2017 commencement documents for New York Law School online and David Lyon is not on the list of JD graduates...
Interesting if the whole character was a scam. The current employer is not disclosed in his CV, qualifications are fake (also flagged on Reddit by someone who says they are an ex colleague https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/1m0198c/comment/n3fiwk...) - what else?
This guy is obviously the most senior person in a small startup.
To me personally, calling yourself a CTO with a CV entry that amounts to what an L5 in a FAANG does in a half, is a bit ridiculous. What title would HN recommend for such a position, instead?
