# Removing my nix flakes vs guix post > Source: > Published: 2026-06-15 10:23:34+00:00 # im removing my nix flakes vs guix post 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 [](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 `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