In my experience dealing with people who use LLMs, approximately none of them do this. The feeling of productivity LLMs create is maximized if you just blindly accept everything they produce, and apparently as a field…
This is just textbook Gell-Mann amnesia. If the author doesn't read the paper how can he possibly know that? Even in this case when it's someone who has related knowledge, how can you know that you're being told…
Those people generally care about learning, IME. "Why would someone play a video game without getting paid?", more like "Why would someone pay money to have a bot play a videogame without getting paid?". People IRL do,…
Yes! It's just repeatedly asserted that vibecoding is taking over, going to replace us all. I have yet to see evidence of it (no, marketing stunts aren't evidence).
The industry is in a desperate race to throw away what little quality it had (could you imagine if other fields of engineering had catastrophic failures at the rate software does?) in favour of "look at all the lines of…
Yep. Nothing makes me lose interest in something faster than slop right at the top of the page...
I don't use LLMs at all. To be honest, I've been waiting years to "get left behind" now and it still hasn't happened. The main things I've noticed are that (a) like you said, LLMs have destroyed any culture of actually…
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate... > A recent study of actual coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review forms a significant “bottleneck” for the overall…
> It's just from my personal experience I guess let's just ignore the evidence, then. > I can't speak to you other issues but these are here to stay and I think the only realistic way forward is to learn how to use…
> I have 0 doubts some people are seeing 5x productivity boosts because of the stuff that is regularly posted on HN - stuff that used to take months taking days. I will cede this: it indeed seems like you can throw…
> 1. The people on HN tend to think they're very clever, but they're often not as clever as they think they are. That has a lot of wide-ranging implications, from classic "engineer's disease" thinking to stuff a lot…
So we should hold LLM slop to a LOWER standard than humans? Great... > therein lies the difference between this with an attitude of embracing new technology and those wanting to stick to the old And as we all know, if…
LLMs causing problems? The solution, apparently: more LLMs! How would you know that the new paper contained the same content as the original (let alone the actual Lean code)?
People seem to be very likely to say that LLMs are good at things that they don't want to do. That's also why you see so much of "well of course they can't do x, but they're great at y" but everyone has a different x…
> I’m able to understand the paper after using ChatGPT to help me through it. How could you possibly know that? If you don't have the knowledge to understand the paper without using a chatbot, you don't have the…
The tech industry is chock full of straight up magical thinking, and nobody shows it more than AI boosters.
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> not all people are able bodied, able, or willing to use public transit. Not all people are able bodied, able, or willing to use cars. Cars are killing tens of thousands a year while destroying the environment. > while…
Private houses aren't killing tens of thousands a year.
You put the trains where the people are, not in the middle of vast unpopulated stretches. Comparing land area is misleading and unhelpful.
Yeah, most places other than the US do. Good public transit is a far, far better solution than better cars. Elsewhere in the thread people are talking about ways of convincing drunk people to get their cars to drive…
> I'm saying asking people to sacrifice will both be rejected and will not do enough, and that the only answer is changing where we get energy. But energy source isn't the only problem. The problem is partially that…
Perhaps instead of using one of the hallucination machines that's aggravating the climate crisis, you could have done some research: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitter... > Globally, the top…
This is a gross misunderstanding of what degrowth means. The fantasy is that an economic system predicated on infinite growth can be made compatible with finite resources. Take, for example, the fact that renewable…
> we get to freely use all the godlike AIs Accepting for the sake of argument the absurd notion that LLMs are anywhere near AGI, does this phrasing not concern you? It deeply concerns me.
In my experience dealing with people who use LLMs, approximately none of them do this. The feeling of productivity LLMs create is maximized if you just blindly accept everything they produce, and apparently as a field…
This is just textbook Gell-Mann amnesia. If the author doesn't read the paper how can he possibly know that? Even in this case when it's someone who has related knowledge, how can you know that you're being told…
Those people generally care about learning, IME. "Why would someone play a video game without getting paid?", more like "Why would someone pay money to have a bot play a videogame without getting paid?". People IRL do,…
Yes! It's just repeatedly asserted that vibecoding is taking over, going to replace us all. I have yet to see evidence of it (no, marketing stunts aren't evidence).
The industry is in a desperate race to throw away what little quality it had (could you imagine if other fields of engineering had catastrophic failures at the rate software does?) in favour of "look at all the lines of…
Yep. Nothing makes me lose interest in something faster than slop right at the top of the page...
I don't use LLMs at all. To be honest, I've been waiting years to "get left behind" now and it still hasn't happened. The main things I've noticed are that (a) like you said, LLMs have destroyed any culture of actually…
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate... > A recent study of actual coding practices across hundreds of firms finds that human code review forms a significant “bottleneck” for the overall…
> It's just from my personal experience I guess let's just ignore the evidence, then. > I can't speak to you other issues but these are here to stay and I think the only realistic way forward is to learn how to use…
> I have 0 doubts some people are seeing 5x productivity boosts because of the stuff that is regularly posted on HN - stuff that used to take months taking days. I will cede this: it indeed seems like you can throw…
> 1. The people on HN tend to think they're very clever, but they're often not as clever as they think they are. That has a lot of wide-ranging implications, from classic "engineer's disease" thinking to stuff a lot…
So we should hold LLM slop to a LOWER standard than humans? Great... > therein lies the difference between this with an attitude of embracing new technology and those wanting to stick to the old And as we all know, if…
LLMs causing problems? The solution, apparently: more LLMs! How would you know that the new paper contained the same content as the original (let alone the actual Lean code)?
People seem to be very likely to say that LLMs are good at things that they don't want to do. That's also why you see so much of "well of course they can't do x, but they're great at y" but everyone has a different x…
> I’m able to understand the paper after using ChatGPT to help me through it. How could you possibly know that? If you don't have the knowledge to understand the paper without using a chatbot, you don't have the…
The tech industry is chock full of straight up magical thinking, and nobody shows it more than AI boosters.
SXQncyBub3QgYSBtaXN1bmRlcnN0YW5kaW5nLCB0aGV5IGp1c3QgZG9uJ3QgY2FyZSBhYm91dCBtYXRoIGF0IGFsbC4gSXQncyBhIG1hcmtldGluZyBzdHVudCB0aGF0IGEgc2hvY2tpbmcgbnVtYmVyIG9mIHBlb3BsZSBoZXJlIHNlZW0gdmVyeSBlbW90aW9uYWxseSBpbnZlc3RlZCBpbiBi…
> not all people are able bodied, able, or willing to use public transit. Not all people are able bodied, able, or willing to use cars. Cars are killing tens of thousands a year while destroying the environment. > while…
Private houses aren't killing tens of thousands a year.
You put the trains where the people are, not in the middle of vast unpopulated stretches. Comparing land area is misleading and unhelpful.
Yeah, most places other than the US do. Good public transit is a far, far better solution than better cars. Elsewhere in the thread people are talking about ways of convincing drunk people to get their cars to drive…
> I'm saying asking people to sacrifice will both be rejected and will not do enough, and that the only answer is changing where we get energy. But energy source isn't the only problem. The problem is partially that…
Perhaps instead of using one of the hallucination machines that's aggravating the climate crisis, you could have done some research: https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-worlds-top-1-of-emitter... > Globally, the top…
This is a gross misunderstanding of what degrowth means. The fantasy is that an economic system predicated on infinite growth can be made compatible with finite resources. Take, for example, the fact that renewable…
> we get to freely use all the godlike AIs Accepting for the sake of argument the absurd notion that LLMs are anywhere near AGI, does this phrasing not concern you? It deeply concerns me.