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GrinningFool commented on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans   news.ycombinator.com/news... · Posted by u/usefulposter
spzzz · 21 hours ago
Me not native speeker. AI help me too get my point front much more cleanly. It hard not look like dummy.

Im of course exaggerating, but it is so easy just to run the text through an AI to make it sound "better" without changing what im trying to express.

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I’m not a native speaker, so AI helps me get my point across more clearly. It’s hard not to come across like a dummy otherwise.

Of course I’m exaggerating, but it’s really easy to run the text through AI to make it sound better without changing what I’m trying to say.

GrinningFool · 19 hours ago
The removal of the quotes around "better" discards an entire layer of meaning.

It also loses the voice that was present in the 'before' version. Typos/misuses and all. More tangibly, an entire layer of meaning was dropped when it removed the quotes around 'better'.

GrinningFool commented on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans   news.ycombinator.com/news... · Posted by u/usefulposter
wubbfindel · 19 hours ago
I've been a regular users of the em dash for years before it became associated with AI output — and I refuse to let that change me!
GrinningFool · 19 hours ago
I've always used the double-hyphen for m-dash -- it's a carry-over from learning to touch-type on a typewriter.

Hopefully that's enough of a distinction...

GrinningFool commented on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans   news.ycombinator.com/news... · Posted by u/usefulposter
nathancahill · a day ago
It gets at an underlying problem with LLMs, where (by design) they'll box themselves into a -> logical conclusion -> pattern. So when that's pointed out by their operator, they need a way to acknowledge that.
GrinningFool · 19 hours ago
Why do they need a way to acknowledge that? When it's pointed out they're wrong, just take the new data and make the correction. They don't need human mannerisms.

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willis936 · 6 days ago
It's not like there has been some change in principle and some sort of knife to sharpen. "2005 personal pirate" was about making art accessible. "2025 corpo pirate" is about killing art.
GrinningFool · 6 days ago
2005 piracy had little to do to with making art accessible. For the most part it seemed more like getting for free the digital things we couldn't pay or and/or felt entitled to, with many justifications layered on top.
GrinningFool commented on US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/geox
shimman · 8 days ago
It's not democracy if you can't destroy it. It's not democracy if the citizens cannot reject it. It's not democracy if it's being forced down your throat.

Sick of how SV/VC absolutely ruin words for their own monetary benefit.

How about you put up it up to a national vote and see what democracy gets you? I highly suspect that vast majorities of the electorate would want to nationalize this tech to benefit everyone rather than benefiting the few.

Democracy means there is a politics of rejection, rejection is normal in functioning democracies; what isn't normal are small handfuls of people capturing all collective human intelligence then claiming only they are allowed to benefit from it.

GrinningFool · 8 days ago
> How about you put up it up to a national vote and see what democracy gets you? I highly suspect that vast majorities of the electorate would want to nationalize this tech to benefit everyone rather than benefiting the few.

You're probably right -- except for the billions in massive PR campaigns that will be spent to successfully convince enough of them that it's in their best interest to let the companies keep ownership.

This is in addition to the billions in PR already being spent to make AI palatable in spite of the societal and economic costs.

GrinningFool commented on Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?   read.technically.dev/p/vi... · Posted by u/itunpredictable
itunpredictable · 15 days ago
The author of this article gives a more balanced POV than mine. I think most (maybe overwhelming majority) of publicized vibe coding projects are complete technical virtue signaling.
GrinningFool · 15 days ago
I think it's often genuine excitement to share a thing - without quite processing that anybody with the same idea can now build it (for simple- to mid-complexity projects).
GrinningFool commented on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge   time.com/7380854/exclusiv... · Posted by u/cwwc
nickserv · 16 days ago
The government is forcing them to change their policy, by definition that is regulation and oversight.

Let's say that the government was forcing a company to change their overall right-to-repair or return policy in order to avoid being on a blacklist, would that not be seen as oversight and regulation?

Whether the regulation is legitimate or of benefit is a different argument.

GrinningFool · 16 days ago
I think GP was referred to lack of regulation and oversight over the government.
GrinningFool commented on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution   boristane.com/blog/how-i-... · Posted by u/vinhnx
majormajor · 19 days ago
> If it did work, well, the oldest trick in computer science is writing compilers, i suppose we will just have to write an English to pedantry compiler.

"Add tests to this function" for GPT-3.5-era models was much less effective than "you are a senior engineer. add tests for this function. as a good engineer, you should follow the patterns used in these other three function+test examples, using this framework and mocking lib." In today's tools, "add tests to this function" results in a bunch of initial steps to look in common places to see if that additional context already exists, and then pull it in based on what it finds. You can see it in the output the tools spit out while "thinking."

So I'm 90% sure this is already happening on some level.

GrinningFool · 19 days ago
But can you see the difference if you only include "you are a senior engineer"? It seems like the comparison you're making is between "write the tests" and "write the tests following these patterns using these examples. Also btw you’re an expert. "

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