Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantly…
They're right about everything, but at the same time it actually has become useful. Sensible not to depend on it and create a vibe-coded mess, but keep everything modular & review the generated code closely and you can…
I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI. (If you want to…
Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong. I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what…
Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks
I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!
I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop.
I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to read what is possibly a hallucinated…
Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!
Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers. Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will be medical, some of them financial, it…
In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show with Nate & Clare, might be to your…
They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV remote control, a camera, a pre-iPhone…
That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux…
Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them. (Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without freezing for minutes at a time this…
I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still needs to understand how to use the data…
DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far…
I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for their last car rental agreement prior to…
It's both, really. The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account for it accordingly", they're just saying…
Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that often isn't much fun, and they start to…
I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like. My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready to play wherever you're likely to be -…
For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!
Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files,…
The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.
So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.
Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.
Sure, I've been part of "in-sourcing" failing projects too, but it was always a sign of management incompetence rather than anything else. It's easy to shift the blame to an outsourcer when it's been GIGO; constantly…
They're right about everything, but at the same time it actually has become useful. Sensible not to depend on it and create a vibe-coded mess, but keep everything modular & review the generated code closely and you can…
I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI. (If you want to…
Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong. I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what…
Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks
I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!
I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop.
I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to read what is possibly a hallucinated…
Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!
Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers. Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will be medical, some of them financial, it…
In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show with Nate & Clare, might be to your…
They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV remote control, a camera, a pre-iPhone…
That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux…
Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them. (Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without freezing for minutes at a time this…
I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still needs to understand how to use the data…
DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much. I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far…
I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for their last car rental agreement prior to…
It's both, really. The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account for it accordingly", they're just saying…
Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that often isn't much fun, and they start to…
I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like. My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready to play wherever you're likely to be -…
For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!
Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files,…
The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.
So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.
Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.