Oxide Now Requires Public Writing to Pass Pangram as Human-Authored, Citing a Survey Where 78% of Developers Stop Reading on Detection
Bryan Cantrill, The Observation Deck / Hacker News·high signal
Bryan Cantrill's September 5 essay reports that Oxide extended RFD 576 to require all public company writing be reported by Pangram 4 as entirely human-authored before publication, a stricter bar than simply not using an LLM. He cites Cynthia Dunlop's survey of 668 developers: 78% stop reading immediately once they detect LLM authorship, 71% avoid that author in future, and 98% prefer an imperfect human piece to an LLM-polished one. Oxide says it adopted the detector because its false positive rate has been extremely low in practice.