Articles from refactoring.guru are almost always human-written.

refactoring.guru has had 1 article reach the Hacker News front page. Pangram scored 0% of them as AI-generated, well under the Hacker News average of 15%.

AI verdict · all time

Reliably human

Lower than most domains we track.

Human 100% Mixed 0% AI 0%

WEEK ON WEEK flat

MONTH ON MONTH flat

Articles analyzed

all-time on HN

Median AI score

half of articles score higher

“Almost certainly AI”

0 articles > 90%

“Likely human”

100%

1 articles < 10%

— Distribution

How AI scores spread

1 articles · 10% buckets

0–1010–2020–3030–4040–5050–6060–7070–8080–9090–100

HUMAN · 0–30%

MIXED · 30–70%

AI · 70–100%

— Trend

AI score by day

Per-day average

70 · AI → 30 · mixed →

earlierlatest

30d avg 3% Min 3% Max 3% Trend ↑ rising

— Sample articles

At three score levels

A snapshot of what refactoring.guru puts on the front page.

Most AI-scored ≥ 70% AI

How to spend 15 years perfecting a product

3% AI · 2,063 words · Jul 16

Mixed 30–70% AI

No articles in this range.

Most-human ≤ 10% AI

How to spend 15 years perfecting a product

3% AI · 2,063 words · Jul 16

— Peer comparison

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AI fraction · all on HN

Hacker News average

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