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Nckpz commented on AI Overviews hallucinates that Airbus not Boeing involved in Air India crash   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/kristianp
kristianp · 2 months ago
The search used was "last airbus fatal crash".
Nckpz · 2 months ago
Just reproduced the issue with Bing's AI result. I find it kind of hilarious that in its sources, the first one listed is an article with the headline: "How Is Airbus Not Suing Google?"
Nckpz commented on Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over   newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/FinnLobsien
Nckpz · 4 months ago
I think it just took the world a while to realize that social media is a replacement for cable TV and magazines, not a replacement for communication tools. Looking at old high school classmates' lunch and vacation photos was never good content, never good for business or mental health, and higher quality communication works fine with texting + Discord.
Nckpz commented on GPT-4.1 in the API   openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/... · Posted by u/maheshrijal
asdev · 4 months ago
it's worse than 4.5 on nearly every benchmark. just an incremental improvement. AI is slowing down
Nckpz · 4 months ago
They don't disclose parameter counts so it's hard to say exactly how far apart they are in terms of size, but based on the pricing it seems like a pretty wild comparison, with one being an attempt at an ultra-massive SOTA model and one being a model scaled down for efficiency and probably distilled from the big one. The way they're presented as version numbers is business nonsense which obscures a lot about what's going on.
Nckpz commented on Ask HN: Is using Cursor still coding?    · Posted by u/franze
Nckpz · 5 months ago
Depends on how you're using AI. If you've already made decisions on architecture and code structure and your prompt looks like "fill in `someMethod` so that it calls `x` then does `y` and `z`", you're just having the AI transcribe things like a true assistant, but you're making the coding decisions.

If your prompt looks more like "make me an app that orders pizza and sends me an email" then you are not coding.

Nckpz commented on Our New AI Website Builder   wordpress.com/blog/2025/0... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
LordDragonfang · 5 months ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I can't help but feel this is a solution in search of a problem.

I feel like "building a simple website" has been a solved issue with templates for decades now. The only thing you need to add is the text, and for a useful website, you're already going to have to be typing 90% of that into the prompt anyway - most of what an LLM is going to add will be more of a value-subtract than a value-add.

Sure, that still leaves the tweaking and customization, but I feel like that's the part most people enjoy the most? Humans love decorating.

Maybe I'm seeing this the wrong way, and I'm forgetting truly non-technical folks exist, and this is for the people who would otherwise be forcing their nephew to help them make a basic website, and that's the role the LLM is playing here, as a conversational interface. I think the marketing copy for this announcement is total bullshit, then (plastering "AI" all over the announcement is more for marketers than customers), but I can at least see that use case.

Nckpz · 5 months ago
I signed up out of curiosity and it looks like it's supposed to complement the manual editing UI so you can get things done without digging through menus. After the initial prompt and wizard, it's a chat box that sits in the corner of a typical WP admin page.

But in its current state, it seemed pretty broken to me. I just wanted it to add text to the top of the front page, and it kept saying "I couldn’t find the block you mentioned. Describe where it is on the page or select it and try again." no matter how many different ways I attempted to describe it.

Nckpz commented on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries   arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/Bender
Nckpz · 5 months ago
I recently started a side-project with a "code everything in prod" approach for fun. I've done this many times over the past 20 years and the bot traffic is usually harmless, but this has been different. I haven't advertised the hostname anywhere, and in less than 24 hours I had a bunch of spam form submissions. I've always expected this after minor publicity, but not "start server, instantly get raided by bots performing interactions"
Nckpz commented on X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, has left the company   theverge.com/twitter/6348... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
Nckpz · 5 months ago
Given what Elon has said about valuing people who work long hours and have an "extremely hardcore" work ethic, I can't imagine it's healthy to stay for too long.
Nckpz commented on Ask HN: Legality of using previously open source data?    · Posted by u/vfulco2
Nckpz · 3 years ago
I'm not an expert, but I think it depends on the license. My understanding is that some licenses are revocable and some aren't.

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