im removing my nix flakes vs guix post

A blogger deleted their post comparing Nix flakes and Guix equivalents after Andrew Tropin accused them of using an LLM to write it, devastating the author who had invested significant effort into the post and site infrastructure.

if you're here looking for my "nix flakes and their guix equivalents" post, it's gone. i deleted it. this isn't a hate letter to andrew or anything like that. i'm writing this because i want to make sure nobody thinks i deleted the post after getting "caught" for "using an llm". i wrote that post because i was curious about something and wanted to understand it better. i researched it a lot — clearly not enough, but still. i was proud of it. i shared it with my friends because i thought it was cool and they might think so too. just before eeping, i posted it in a few matrix chats. i woke up, and it was apparently on the front page of lobste.rs https://lobste.rs/s/fybei2/nix flakes their guix equivalents i had never ever imagined any of my blog posts would get more than three interested users let alone the attention it had garnered now. ludovic courtès — the literal founder of guix — made a toot about it https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/116739238432127929 that got twelve boosts i was so excited meoww and then it turned out a last-minute javascript change i'd made had broken the site on mobile, and people couldn't even read it. i fixed it as soon as it was brought to my attention. but by then people were already frustrated, and i can't blame them. the next day, i come back from work, and a friend shares a link: andrew tropin wrote a review of my post https://trop.in/blog/quick-review-of-nix-flakes-and-their-guix-equivalents . andrew tropin. someone whose work i really respect. i opened it so excited. and three paragraphs in, he says he suspects i wrote it with an llm. to be clear: i'm not upset about being critiqued. i actually welcome that, especially from someone as knowledgeable as andrew. what broke me was the accusation that i didn't write my own words. and it's the very first thing he says — before any of the technical points, before any of the corrections, the very first thing i read is that i'm suspected of being fake. if anyone is here expecting a response to the technical points of andrew's post, then i'm sorry but this isn't it. i was too devastated to really process them. i'm sure his criticisms are valid and correct, but i'm not really in the mood to engage right now. what i can tell you is how that accusation made me feel. i put a lot of effort into the infrastructure of this site. i made ox-atom https://codeberg.org/coopi/emacs-ox-atom to power its feed. i made neocities.el ~ meow ~ . so after all that work, being told that arguably the most important part of my blog — the text, the part that's supposed to be me — sounds like it came from a fancier markov chain, was destroying. i didn't use an llm. but i cant prove a negative, and am anyways too tired to try. so im taking the post down mraow :c