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Pangram says 100% AI, for what it's worth.

No, it felt too invasive and creepy so I abandoned the idea. Or my lack of follow-through is a sign that I’m actually on the other side of the “war”. Reader decides! But suffice it…

I think we’re on opposite sides but this is the first time I’ve seen someone in the wild share my suspicions that the LLM conflict is part of some vast ADHD vs autism hyperwar. At …

I wondered the same but after running some previous entries through Pangram (and giving them the ol' Mark I Eyeball), I don't think this is satirical. How annoyingly ironic.

I'm a little confused in that this post is either (partially?) AI-generated or deliberately written to appear so (including to Pangram). I'm a self-confessed AI hater and yet I agr…

He's on to us, boys! Call in a code 43. (Sorry, I'm in a crappy mood, but what on Earth are we supposed to take away from this? Everyone who disagrees with you is secretly an idiot…

I've never read Howey's books but have them mentally filed next to, like, Dungeon Crawler Carl, the Bobiverse, whatever that long thing is with all the superheroes, thousand-chapte…

HN consistently, IMO, underrates the degree to which technology adoption is “political” rather than inevitable. I was going to write a long jokey bit here but instead; counter exam…

I find that some of my friends and acquaintances have gotten obsessed with prompting style, "prompt engineering", which skills to use, which skills to build, "context engineering",…

There is a lot of rehashing of LLM arguments in the comments here, but I'd love to read an actual distributed systems expert's take on the DNS architecture the author and/or Claude…

No, in my opinion as a parent this is lunacy. By the time my little kids "need" AI or the Internet in a meaningful way the AI labs will have either delivered the dream of "just tal…

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I don't buy the superintelligence package, but I think uncritical LLM adoption poses plenty of threats to things I care about, in a mundane human-scale way. Anyhow, I think you're …

I think at this point the containment board is the entire Internet. I have no idea how, but we all need to "Atlas Shrugged" this shit and start over somewhere else with something e…

I think you may have missed a subtle point: there is an especial risk from automation which almost always works correctly. The aviation industry calls the phenomenon "automation fa…

"Yes, Socrates, you can easily invent tales of Egypt, or of any other country."

I have a question for all the "humans make those mistakes too" people in this thread, and elsewhere: have you ever read, or at least skimmed a summary of, "The Origin of Consciousn…

It's getting bad here; I've seen at least three obviously AI-written "anti-AI" or "AI critical" pieces hit and remain on the front page in the last week. I can't help but think abo…

It’s ok, Harlan, you save up for that baby and don’t let the cult browbeat you over it. (People are fuzzy and while game theory is fun and even sometimes useful, this kind of stuff…

> literally You were either a very talented baby or we’re justified in questioning your ability to assess the correctness of nitpicky formalisms.

The formal methods people may yet have the last laugh. I did not have Lean becoming a hyped programming language / proof assistant on my bingo card for 2025-26 and yet here we are,…

> A number of these phenomena have been bundled under the name "Software Engineering". As economics is known as "The Miserable Science", software engineering should be known as "Th…

For me, “interestingly wrong” becomes just “wrong” without human thinking behind it. I wasn’t bowled over by the prose, I just thought it was an uncommon take and didn’t twig the s…

As a couple sibling comments said, I took it for an insight into the way an optimistic writer might see AI software development becoming a new form of "end-user programming" or "ci…