ai slop justifications will become the norm.
Readit Newsrtgfhyuj commented on I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it jerpint.io/blog/2026-01-2... · Posted by u/jerpint
rtgfhyuj commented on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI passo.uno/letter-those-wh... · Posted by u/theletterf
I write documentation for a living. Although my output is writing, my job is observing, listening and understanding. I can only write well because I have an intimate understanding of my readers' problems, anxieties and confusion. This decides what I write about, and how to write about it. This sort of curation can only come from a thinking, feeling human being.
I revise my local public transit guide every time I experience a foreign public transit system. I improve my writing by walking in my readers' shoes and experiencing their confusion. Empathy is the engine that powers my work.
Most of my information is carefully collected from a network of people I have a good relationship with, and from a large and trusting audience. It took me years to build the infrastructure to surface useful information. AI can only report what someone was bothered to write down, but I actually go out in the real world and ask questions.
I have built tools to collect people's experience at the immigration office. I have had many conversations with lawyers and other experts. I have interviewed hundreds of my readers. I have put a lot of information on the internet for the first time. AI writing is only as good as the data it feeds on. I hunt for my own data.
People who think that AI can do this and the other things have an almost insulting understanding of the jobs they are trying to replace.
sounds like a bunch of agents can do a good amount of this. A high horse isn’t necessary
rtgfhyuj commented on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books trails.pieterma.es/... · Posted by u/pmaze
It’s any interesting thread for sure, but while reading through this I couldn’t help but think that the point of these ideas are for a person to read and consider deeply. What is the point of having a machine do this “thinking” for us? The thinking is the point.
so consider them deeply. Why does the value diminish if discovered by a machine as long as the value is in the thinking?
rtgfhyuj commented on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books trails.pieterma.es/... · Posted by u/pmaze
This is a beautiful piece of work. The actual data or outputs seem to be more or less...trash? Maybe too strong a word. But perhaps you are outsourcing too much critical thought to a statistical model. We are all guilty of it. But some of these are egregious, obviously referential LLM dog. The world has more going on than whatever these models seem to believe.
Edit/update: if you are looking for the phantom thread between texts, believe me that an LLM cannot achieve it. I have interrogated the most advanced models for hours, and they cannot do the task to any sort of satisfactory end that a smoked-out half-asleep college freshman could. The models don't have sufficient capacity...yet.
give it a more thorough look maybe?
rtgfhyuj commented on How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code mihaileric.com/The-Empero... · Posted by u/nutellalover
Off the top of my head: parallel subagents, hooks, skills, and a much better plan mode. These features enable way better steering than we had last year. Subagents are a huge boon to productivity.
are subagents just tools that are agents themselves?
rtgfhyuj commented on How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code mihaileric.com/The-Empero... · Posted by u/nutellalover
There's a bit more to it!
For example, the agent in the post will demonstrate 'early stopping' where it finishes before the task is really done. You'd think you can solve this with reasoning models, but it doesn't actually work on SOTA models.
To fix 'early stopping' you need extra features in the agent harness. Claude Code does this with TODOs that are injected back into every prompt to remind the LLM what tasks remain open. (If you're curious somewhere in the public repo for HolmesGPT we have benchamrks with all the experiments we ran to solve this - from hypothesis tracking to other exotic approaches - but TODOs always performed best.)
Still, good article. Agents really are just tools in a loop. It's not rocket science.
why would it early stop? examples?
I remember buying a magazine full of crosswords and similar puzzles when I was in the mood.
And when there were sites with unlimited Wordle, I played a few in a row.
On the internet, unlike with newspapers, you're not limited to how many levels/games you can make per day. Making it once per day doesn't make any sense whatsoever. It's condescending to the users and feels like a power trip.
so don’t? others have said they like it, you don’t, move on
Well, you need to pull up to the side of the gas pump. It's not an "intuition gap". The arrow is ambiguous.
You don't pull up next to Paris, but I would get a chuckle if the icon had a little Eiffel tower instead of a gas pump.
nah, the pump is visibly physically, dont need an arroq thats idiotic
a better solution would have been to have an industry wide standard icon for the fuel inlet and then an arrow would point on which side of the vehicle it is. The way it is now with the pump icon really can be confusing. If the arrow is pointing right, it seems to be suggesting the driver should go to the right of the pump which is obviously wrong.
I like the way EVs have the squiggly hose icon and that tells you everyting.it doesn't depict the charger station, but the plug point on the vehicle.
in the absence of industry wide standards, this is an ingenious design, 100% best thing possible
That's exaxtly the kind of thing that makes absolute sense to anthropomorphize. We're not talking about Excel here.