{"slug": "removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post", "title": "Removing my nix flakes vs guix post", "summary": "A developer deleted their blog post comparing Nix flakes and Guix after Andrew Tropin publicly accused them of using an LLM to write it. The author, who had researched and hand-coded the site, said the accusation was devastating and that they could not prove they wrote it themselves. The post had briefly reached the front page of Lobsters and received attention from Guix founder Ludovic Courtès before being taken down.", "body_md": "# im removing my nix flakes vs guix post\n\nif you're here looking for my \"nix flakes and their guix equivalents\" post, it's gone. i deleted it.\n\nthis 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\".\n\ni 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.\n\njust before eeping, i posted it in a few matrix chats. i woke up, and it was\napparently 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\nblog posts would get more than **three** interested users let alone the attention it\nhad garnered now. ludovic courtès — the literal founder of guix — [made a toot\nabout it](https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/116739238432127929) that got twelve boosts!!! i was so excited meoww!!\n\nand 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.\n\nthe next day, i come back from work, and a friend shares a link: andrew tropin\nwrote 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.\ni opened it so excited. and three paragraphs in, he says he suspects i wrote it\nwith an llm.\n\nto 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.\n\nif 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.\n\nwhat i can tell you is how that accusation made me feel.\n\ni put a lot of effort into the infrastructure of this site. i made [ ox-atom](https://codeberg.org/coopi/emacs-ox-atom) to\npower its feed. i made\n\n[](https://codeberg.org/coopi/emacs-neocities)to talk to neocities. i wrote the css and javascript by hand. there's a cat in the background pattern. the section headers have little sparkles. the postamble says\n\n`neocities.el`\n\n`~ meow ~`\n\n.\nso after all that work, being told that arguably the most important part of my\nblog — the text, the part that's supposed to be *me* — sounds like it came from a\nfancier markov chain, was destroying.\n\ni didn't use an llm. but i cant prove a negative, and am anyways too tired to try.\n\nso im taking the post down mraow :c", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post", "canonical_source": "https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/taking-down-nix-flakes-vs-guix", "published_at": "2026-06-15 10:23:34+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-15 10:52:46.541382+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-ethics", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Andrew Tropin", "Ludovic Courtès", "Nix", "Guix", "Lobsters", "Neocities"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/removing-my-nix-flakes-vs-guix-post.jsonld"}}