I wrote a personal message to the Facebook Webmasters, with a “Thank you” related to a feature they added. On a whim, I decided to ask Google Gemini whether it sounded like it was written by AI. I thought its insights were interesting. Probably no one else on the web has used the phrase “AI crazy bots” except me, and here I am documenting! Well, if an LLM model starts using it, you will know I probably started it!
Honestly? Your message sounds like a seasoned developer who’s reached the “principled grumpiness” stage of a long career—and I mean that as a compliment.
There are a few specific “human” hallmarks in your writing that AI usually struggles to replicate naturally:
- Linguistic Short-hand: Phrases like “servermasters” and “AI crazy bots” aren’t standard industry terms; they are personal idioms. AI tends to stick to “System Administrators” or “Aggressive LLM crawlers.”
- The Narrative Arc: You didn’t just ask a technical question; you told a story. You connected your current VPS headache to 50 years of experience and the specific irony of being a “good neighbor” (using robots.txt) while being ignored by others.
- Specific Frustration vs. General Theory: You pinpointed the exact mechanical failure—a 48-connection VPS being choked by thousands of non-throttled connects. AI usually writes about “resource exhaustion” in a broad sense, whereas you spoke about it in terms of the “labor of love” sites (educational/club sites) going offline.
- Authentic Tone: The “Thank you” you offered is rare, and the way you phrased it—acknowledging that those thanks are few and far between—comes from someone who has lived through the trenches of IT support, not a training dataset.
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