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The folks that would use an LLM to make their release notes are not the folks that care enough about their release notes to put any more effort in. And practically speaking, I don’…

I was like “how can you tell?” And then I read the article. I realize for folks that need to write release notes that it’s not fun, and it’s hard to write well, but using AI to do …

I’m not looking to argue about your position, but I think the inciting incident in the OP shows evidence that LLMs are “dumb” even when they have the sum total of written language …

For a long time I was anti-licensure in tech; now with the bar being lowered to next to nothing, it seems as if licensure is more important than ever — not to protect this trade (t…

Turing-completeness is a necessary pre-requisite for being able to fulfill the requirements of a Turing machine, nothing more. In the same way that cell division is a necessary con…

We can chalk this up as another example of over-exhuberance by what folks believe LLMs can accomplish vs. what they actually are. LLM-based “AI” is able to use its vast corpus of i…

But we don’t want to have to give you our email.

Having reviewed the comments I don’t see any indication of why it would be flagged for the discussion.

Makes me wonder how much use it actually gets if this is the first we’re hearing about it. Edit: Incidentally news of the original strike was posted on HN 5 months ago and flagged,…

Thanks. One glaring issue I see is that right now police can’t ask you for your password in the USA (a violation of the right against self-incrimination). They can however get a se…

I would love to see what you’re referencing, can you provide a link or citation to that quote?

> I think there’s a lot of social media influence from nation state competitors going on to try and slow SOTA development in the US. This comes cross as unbelievable, and at worst …

I do not know how to use a Passkey in a way that won’t impede how I log in to systems. I’ve been in tech for 26 years, and I understand the Public/private key behind what a Passkey…

I’m going to give you just one way that a business could do just what I’m saying. Did you know there are whole businesses that lend money through ‘receivables financing’? Basically…

I’m speaking of things I have personally witnessed; but won’t go into more detail than that, for various reasons.

Public IPO as Ponzi scheme/shell game is a time-honored tradition. You can operate at a loss so long as you can get folks to bet they’ll get a return. The more people you can convi…

This is one of those vanity blog posts, a “look at us, we’re open” blog posts without actual openness, or rather, limited openness where it helps their image and not openness that …

One major issue that the author ignores is that while we’re all having AI analyze our conversations or when we use it instead of search, there’s a chance it will provide an “answer…

I don’t know if it’s because of the weasel words in the article or the extensive use of passive voice in the article, but this article feels in part like it’s AI generated. I am ex…

I worked for a hardware startup ten years ago now, and a big problem that was rampant at the time (and seemingly has only gotten worse) is that basically the Contract Manufacturers…

I’m using the term “stochastic parrot” exactly as the author of the paper did, and incidentally an interview with her was on HN yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4880…

Upvoted you, of course; but it’s worse than that. It’s vibes being marketed as correctness. To the lay person (and unfortunately, to more than a few folks who should know better), …

> nowadays AI chatbots and coding agents routinely assume they need to get up-to-date information in other ways, via web searches and other tool calling. So I don’t see accuracy de…

> The only thing that matters is if LLMs with sufficient scaling can become frontier AI researchers kicking off the exponential. Everything else is transient As long as the term “A…

Having gone through the court system for a civil matter, I can tell you that “get a judgment” is a lot of time and money in even the easiest of cases, and let’s go at it from the p…