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Why is the go-to always "you must not have used it" in lieu of the much more likely experience of having already seen and rejected first-hand the slop that it churns out? Synthetic…

I once got a temporary F# role without any F# experience simply by having 7 YoE with C# and the knowledge that F# exists. As much as I'd like to do more with it, the "just use F#" …

I feel like part of the mess of modern web development is the idea that most people actually need to "do something more complex than the basics". So much rehashing and effort spent…

I graduated before LLMs but after WolframAlpha and I essentially cheated my way through calculus I and II. Lenient grade weighting made 90s on the homework and 60s on the exams eno…

I didn't just look at the implementation, I tried it as well. I was hoping it would work, but the aggregating model mostly either failed to properly synthesize a new response (mere…

I saw a relatively new AI company already valued at over $1 bn publish a "new technique" recently, complete with whitepaper and all. I looked at the implementation and... it was ju…