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that was me swyx




Multiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172

Here is an even older comment chain about it from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706

Apparently, comparing low-background steel to pre-LLM text is a rather obvious analogy.


As well as that people often do think alike.

If you have a thought, it's likely it's not new.


Oh wow, great find! That’s really early days.

i didnt claim to invent it.

i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did


you did!!



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