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TSUTiger commented on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/ascertain
BeetleB · a month ago
> Disagree and push back

The other day an LLM gave me a script that had undeclared identifiers (it hallucinated a constant from an import).

When I informed it, it said "You must have copy/pasted incorrectly."

When I pushed back, it said "Now you trust me: The script is perfectly correct. You should look into whether there is a problem with the installation/config on your computer."

TSUTiger · a month ago
Was it Grok 4 Fast by chance?

I was dealing with something similar with it yesterday. No code involved. It was giving me factually incorrect information about a multiple schools and school districts. I told it it was wrong multiple times and it hallucinated school names even. Had the school district in the wrong county entirely. It kept telling me I was wrong and that although it sounded like the answer it gave me, it in fact was correct. Frustrated, I switched to Expert, had it re-verify all the facts, and then it spit out factually correct information.

TSUTiger commented on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone   a.wholelottanothing.org/b... · Posted by u/wawayanda
s17n · 2 months ago
The article starts by blaming AI for the reduced food menu, a speculative claim which the author made no attempt to validate and which is almost certainly incorrect. I stopped reading right there.
TSUTiger · 2 months ago
You should've read further.

In reality, when getting out first to market, it might be difficult for "AI" to decipher if a user added 1 of 5 available sauces to their chicken wings, so to reduce the likelihood of this error, you remove it until the technology is more mature. Speculative sure, but a strong assumption, and I doubt Mashgin would confirm this.

TSUTiger commented on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone   a.wholelottanothing.org/b... · Posted by u/wawayanda
ryandrake · 2 months ago
> You place all your items on the white shelf with some space between them. Although they were clearly designed to be a self-checkout experience, the stadium had a staff member rearrange your items, then for about 30 seconds the kiosk would be thinking. After, it would pop up all items on the menu, and the staff member would have to tap to confirm what each item was.

Maybe we're just calling all forms of automation and computer vision "AI" these days because it's sexy. Anyway: any automation that requires a human staff member to intervene to complete every run is not automation: It's just adding unnecessary technology and making the process worse. Imagine if each grocery store self-checkout required a human staff member to scan items, re-arrange things, and confirm checkout.

TSUTiger · 2 months ago
They do that at Circle K[0] today using the same tech from Mashgin. It's meant to be a self-checkout, but you literally have one employee standing and watching this one checkout (sometimes 2-3, but usually 1-2). It's not always accurate, requires some hand-holding at times, and slows down the already slow lines at Circle K. It's a bit faster than the article implies and does not require a staff member, but still slower than a human would be.

Meanwhile over at QuikTrip, there's one person checking out two people at a time. Suffice to say, if both stores are available, I will always choose the QT.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c1kbWAttus

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echelon_musk · 2 months ago
How much karma is needed to downvote stories?
TSUTiger commented on Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards   rewards.getonecard.io... · Posted by u/jsh1
TSUTiger · 8 months ago
How does this compare to something like MaxRewards[0]?

I'd try doing my own due diligence first, but without signing up for an account first, I can't get past the homepage.

[0]: https://maxrewards.com

TSUTiger commented on Trump's Trade War Escalates as China Retaliates with 34% Tariffs   nytimes.com/2025/04/04/bu... · Posted by u/Anon84
Tadpole9181 · 8 months ago
Trump himself, out of his own mouth, with his own tongue, using the air from the breathe inside his lungs, has literally and explicitly with no ambiguities said on multiple occasions that he wants to violate the constitution and have a third term. Republican leaders are humoring the idea.
TSUTiger · 8 months ago
You mentioned there are multiple occasions: You got a quote on that? I did a quick Google search, but the most recent events are hogging up the results and I didn't hear anything literal about him saying what you claim he was saying. If you're referring to the most recent question asked by a reporter, what you're saying is false -- there was nothing literal or explicit about it.

The specific text in the 22nd Amendment states: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"

Key word is "ELECTED," (the loophole) but this is up for debate as the intent of the amendment. Deeper dive here: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/legal-scholars-dispute-con...

TSUTiger commented on ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)   hardmodefirst.xyz/chatgpt... · Posted by u/bethanymarz
xnorswap · 10 months ago
It doesn't need "AI" or a "Scribe" to spot a low platelet count in lab results either, computer systems have been able to do this for decades.

There's a systemic failure that a computer wasn't already flagging up the low count for immediate follow-up.

What I find interesting is that AI (or more specifically LLMs / chat-GPT ) has had such an impact it's broken down barriers from people who previously would be against any computer involvement or automation. People have gone from, "You must not automate anything" to "We should feed everything into chat GPT"..

And from someone who has in the past been interested in statistical modelling, it's dizzying. It's as if statistics were seen as boring and fallible, but "AI" is exciting and wonderful.

TSUTiger · 10 months ago
I believe it's because statistics can be interpreted in different ways and requires analysis (work). "AI" just gives you an answer, even if it's wrong.
TSUTiger commented on Ente: Self Host the Google Photos Alternative and Own Your Privacy   developer-friendly.blog/b... · Posted by u/meysamazad
TSUTiger · 10 months ago
For those who have used both, how does this compare with Memories[0] -- it was still open in one of my tabs :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39783223

TSUTiger commented on TSMC faces tough choices amid rumors for Intel foundry collaboration   techsoda.substack.com/p/t... · Posted by u/walterbell
inverted_flag · 10 months ago
Currently, all the Arizona-made chips have to be sent back to Taiwan for packaging, which defeats the purpose of having the fab in the US in the first place.
TSUTiger · 10 months ago
That's definitely going to impact the new Amkor facility out there
TSUTiger commented on Why is everyone trying to replace Software Engineers?   toddle.dev/blog/why-is-ev... · Posted by u/akulkarni
prewett · 10 months ago
I was part of a group people that tended towards artsy (and definitely not rationalist). This was when everyone had an idea for a new app, and I kept getting people trying to get me to work for equity. They seemed to have these same kinds of unrealistic expectations. I eventually came to the conclusion that they saw software as like painting. It seems to take about 8 - 24 hrs to create a work of art (assuming the idea is complete and you are working within your skill level), so their mental price and timeline was something similar.

A better metaphor for software is like writing a book. Everyone sees writing a book as borderline undoable, and the expectation is that it takes months and months. I think that software and writing have a lot in common (including lots of text, and even the verb used), and that explaining ourselves as book-writers would help set better expectations.

TSUTiger · 10 months ago
Obviously this depends on _where_ you're working, but personally, I like the plumber metaphor -- nobody notices the plumber until things aren't working properly and by then you're in deep shit.

Software is working great: Everything's working great, why do we pay you again!?

Software is broken: Everything's broken, why do we pay you!?

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