Your wish wash granted, the story is already off the front page, with an obvious penalty applied.
> OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' I thought they already had HN?
It's something that you'd pause and think about if you were trying to build a sensible argument for a thoughtful audience. But the online attention economy now runs on AI op-eds and in a world of overabundance, the…
You're replying to a joke, and yes, that's all it's about. For all the tales of rapid self-improvement, all labs are real careful not to taint their precious training sets with anything that comes out of their systems.…
So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?
This is a ridiculous term. No one is trying to spy on your blog-slop and image-slop. Some people want to know that they're not reading or looking at human-produced content, though. I continue to be amused by how much…
And yet, looking at the thread the day after, no one has done that before giving their take.
If that's what you want, I'll save you some tokens: #!/bin/sh while read question; do echo "Put it into VFIAX"; done
Now, compare this to a story that seemed to claim the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102
Strongly disagree on that last part. Unlike software engineering, where training is nearly non-existent and we expect everyone to show to their first job interview knowing about the big-O complexity of sorting…
> I do not know what you are talking about. What are you talking about? Show me one survey that shows DIY crafts as a whole becoming more popular in the past several decades. It's just not a thing. People increasingly…
First, PCBs: neither do I, I'm not sure why you're assuming that's the position I want to take. This has nothing to do with 3D printing or mail-order metal parts. Second, I don't think there's a revolution for the…
I'm not sure if it's that simple. Many space-intensive DIY hobbies are on the retreat simply because more people are moving into cities or very dense suburbs where you have no practical opportunity to, say, build a…
It's a two-way street. When someone tells you "don't do that", they usually mean they don't want to be on the receiving end of what often amounts to LLM-powered literary diarrhea. Yes, in theory, the quality can be the…
I think it's hard to generalize because people have different approaches to writing, but to me, there's a marked difference between iteratively polishing my own text and editing for someone else (and that includes LLM…
This absolutely doesn't look like AI writing and this is a pretty weird signal to use. I have a much better theory: as it happens, Substack automatically converts "--" to em-dash as you type. I'm guessing the author…
I wonder if the author is right; using a slightly wrong capacitor for the clock (keeping in mind that they're usually +/- 10% or worse from the factory) may produce a different oscillation speed, but usually not an…
> Why not? The default state is that things don't get done unless we have a reason. So there is a motivation at play and it's OK to inquire about it, especially if the author appears to be cagey about how the project…
Right, but neither is an LLM because most of the time, it conflates "helpful" with "sycophantic" by default (i.e., it loves the thesis of your essay even if it's dumb). If you prompt it to be critical, it often defaults…
Long-form comments in the code are AI-written too, so I assume the whole thing is vibecoded. I guess my question is why. This is obviously not a piece of software anyone will ever use. If the author didn't do this for…
This is a bit like telling the owner of a Tiki bar that they don't need to use the Papyrus font for their logo, or a kindergarten that they don't need to use Comic Sans. The default style exists because people with…
I sort of agree, but I also think the advice here is circular. To look at the style suggestions produced by an LLM and decide that you agree with some of them in spirit, but want to put it in your own words, you already…
> The problem here is that AI isn't just a problem, it also revealed a problem: too much emphasis on publishing papers and churning out new results. Oh geez, I wonder how it revealed it... oh, right, because AI labs…
This aligns with my observations, but I'm less optimistic about what you get out of it. The models are good at pointing out basic syntax issues that slip past spell checkers. But here's how you can get a comparable…
For my social circle, the distinction falls almost perfectly along the line of people who see software engineering as a craft / passion, versus those who see it as something that needs to be done to get paid. The first…
Your wish wash granted, the story is already off the front page, with an obvious penalty applied.
> OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world' I thought they already had HN?
It's something that you'd pause and think about if you were trying to build a sensible argument for a thoughtful audience. But the online attention economy now runs on AI op-eds and in a world of overabundance, the…
You're replying to a joke, and yes, that's all it's about. For all the tales of rapid self-improvement, all labs are real careful not to taint their precious training sets with anything that comes out of their systems.…
So OpenAI is not a believer in recursive self-improvement after all?
This is a ridiculous term. No one is trying to spy on your blog-slop and image-slop. Some people want to know that they're not reading or looking at human-produced content, though. I continue to be amused by how much…
And yet, looking at the thread the day after, no one has done that before giving their take.
If that's what you want, I'll save you some tokens: #!/bin/sh while read question; do echo "Put it into VFIAX"; done
Now, compare this to a story that seemed to claim the opposite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49139102
Strongly disagree on that last part. Unlike software engineering, where training is nearly non-existent and we expect everyone to show to their first job interview knowing about the big-O complexity of sorting…
> I do not know what you are talking about. What are you talking about? Show me one survey that shows DIY crafts as a whole becoming more popular in the past several decades. It's just not a thing. People increasingly…
First, PCBs: neither do I, I'm not sure why you're assuming that's the position I want to take. This has nothing to do with 3D printing or mail-order metal parts. Second, I don't think there's a revolution for the…
I'm not sure if it's that simple. Many space-intensive DIY hobbies are on the retreat simply because more people are moving into cities or very dense suburbs where you have no practical opportunity to, say, build a…
It's a two-way street. When someone tells you "don't do that", they usually mean they don't want to be on the receiving end of what often amounts to LLM-powered literary diarrhea. Yes, in theory, the quality can be the…
I think it's hard to generalize because people have different approaches to writing, but to me, there's a marked difference between iteratively polishing my own text and editing for someone else (and that includes LLM…
This absolutely doesn't look like AI writing and this is a pretty weird signal to use. I have a much better theory: as it happens, Substack automatically converts "--" to em-dash as you type. I'm guessing the author…
I wonder if the author is right; using a slightly wrong capacitor for the clock (keeping in mind that they're usually +/- 10% or worse from the factory) may produce a different oscillation speed, but usually not an…
> Why not? The default state is that things don't get done unless we have a reason. So there is a motivation at play and it's OK to inquire about it, especially if the author appears to be cagey about how the project…
Right, but neither is an LLM because most of the time, it conflates "helpful" with "sycophantic" by default (i.e., it loves the thesis of your essay even if it's dumb). If you prompt it to be critical, it often defaults…
Long-form comments in the code are AI-written too, so I assume the whole thing is vibecoded. I guess my question is why. This is obviously not a piece of software anyone will ever use. If the author didn't do this for…
This is a bit like telling the owner of a Tiki bar that they don't need to use the Papyrus font for their logo, or a kindergarten that they don't need to use Comic Sans. The default style exists because people with…
I sort of agree, but I also think the advice here is circular. To look at the style suggestions produced by an LLM and decide that you agree with some of them in spirit, but want to put it in your own words, you already…
> The problem here is that AI isn't just a problem, it also revealed a problem: too much emphasis on publishing papers and churning out new results. Oh geez, I wonder how it revealed it... oh, right, because AI labs…
This aligns with my observations, but I'm less optimistic about what you get out of it. The models are good at pointing out basic syntax issues that slip past spell checkers. But here's how you can get a comparable…
For my social circle, the distinction falls almost perfectly along the line of people who see software engineering as a craft / passion, versus those who see it as something that needs to be done to get paid. The first…