cyral · HackerLangs

I'm not sure why you are being ripped apart in the comments, especially for a lot of nitpicky things. It was an interesting article, I can resonate with it from years of doing customer support. Comment sections like this make you realize you should not be taking business advice from HN.

cyral

14 days agodiscuss

If they called it 6.0 and it wasn't AGI, you'd see a lot of complaining here too

cyral

2 months agodiscuss

Another massive reason is that ChatGPT and similar apps are eating their lunch. Asking a question to ChatGPT actually tends to be pretty convenient compared to the top X results that are just SEO optimized slop.

cyral

2 months agodiscuss

This may have been a problem a year or two ago but any premium model will be exploring the codebase to check similar routes to answer all these questions, if you don't specify them.

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

The interactive parts of this post are very cool though

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

It's insane how most of the dev subreddits are filled with slop like this. I've thought the same thing - why can't they even spend 5 minutes to write their own post about their project?

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

All the VS code stuff is literally still there

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

I just upgraded and you can still show/hide the entire editor like before

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.

It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.

cyral

3 months agodiscuss

It might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.

cyral

4 months agodiscuss

Very cool. One of my favorite professors in college would make 100+ slide powerpoints of algorithms and flip through them really fast in order to visualize what they were doing, it was really helpful.

cyral

4 months agodiscuss

I've been doing this for so long and never knew there was a reviver param, thanks - that is super useful.

cyral

4 months agodiscuss

Yup, it was actually an interesting article but there are a few telltale parts that sound like every AI spam post on /r/webdev and similar. "No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification." is another. The three negatives repeated is present in so many AI generated promotional posts.

cyral

6 months agodiscuss

I've seen this too in the US, the newer machines let them spin the scan around in 3D space and must make it much easier to tell if something needs inspection or not

cyral

6 months agodiscuss

Yes, in my area if you need to find a new doctor you literally can't. This is a major city. The online booking for any major hospital network literally shows no results because the next appointment would be 90+ days out. If you have an existing relationship maybe you can get in in two weeks.

cyral

6 months agodiscuss

Getting a potential answer right away is certainly temping over waiting weeks to get an appointment

cyral

6 months agodiscuss

The amount of docs that have a “Copy as markdown” or “Copy for AI” button has been noticeably increasing, and really helps the LLM with proper context.

cyral

7 months agodiscuss

You can click the three dots on any response and click "Branch in new chat". Not sure when it was added but it exists.

cyral

7 months agodiscuss

Wild that it was released in 2016 for almost $9,000

cyral

7 months agodiscuss

Different scenario but it reminds me of when Missouri prosecuted a reporter who found that teacher's SSN numbers were exposed in the HTML of a webpage

> "Parson described the journalist as a “perpetrator” who “took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the Social Security number of those specific educators” in an “attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians.”"