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Costs will continue to come down. That's how technology works. They will continue to come down further and further until they cross the threshold and become negative, and when that…

Why are the leading models capable of regurgitating full copyrighted works such as "Harry Potter" and "On the Road"? Did they hire someone to type those out for them? https://arxiv…

I wanted to know my real score so I intentionally picked the answer most likely to be wrong in those instances.

Not always. I once got accused of cheating at University because my take-home assignment was so much better than my in class work. At home there was no pressure to perform. I could…

It was a "Keurig", and I had to put a pod in it and wait a few seconds. Is that not espresso? I make espresso at home by grinding/tamping it myself so I admittedly don't know much …

I did go to an American coffee house while I was there. It was called something like "Phil's" and there were no lattes to be had.

Really? The Last time I was in an American office, there didn't seem to be any milk around. They had an unrefrigerated bottle of "creamer" next to the coffee machine, but I was too…

> I’ve been trying to ask people a different question: sure, we’re more productive now but to me, the AI era is only serving to plunge us deeper than ever into producing more, more…

On the other hand, one of my recent launch posts received comments such as "this is the sort of thing that is now possible with AI!", when I didn't use any AI at all.

This still means that 40% of consumers aren't turned off at all. That seems promising for AI bulls.

The fact that anything I post online will now get slurped up by a machine and regurgitated for people who have no idea it was my work that made their prompt come to life.

I get where you're coming from, and I agree to some extent, but I do think our tendency to weight criticism more favorably than praise (as if praise is "chaff" and criticism is aut…

I'm sorry to hear that. If it's any consolation, people often say I act like an alien pretending to be a human. Maybe it's just the price I pay for being an inquisitive person.

One time a project I made appeared at the very top of the front page. It attracted many negative comments. Some saying it was barely usable. Others saying I'd built it wrong, and o…

I might be the only person at my job that doesn't use it, but it feels like I'll be found out by upper management sooner or later. Maybe I'll need to use a library I'm unfamiliar w…

This is good PR for them. They get to tweet about how scary and powerful their models are in the lead up to their IPO.

People talking about "flow" and using AI as a "tutor" are missing the point entirely. The beauty of AI is that you don't need a tutor anymore, and you don't need flow. It's like as…

You're conflating engagement farming and rage-baiting. Engagement can be both positive and negative. I can't find any online sources that agree with your definition. Here's one tha…

HN rewards engagement in the form of upvotes. If you make a post or comment with the intention of getting upvotes, you're engagement farming. I hate to break it to you, but there a…

> Why would anyone "engagement farm" on HN? That's crazy. All sorts of reasons! One is that when you reach 1000 karma, you gain the ability to downvote comments. You seem like a sm…

Have you tried Claude Opus 4.7

I mean, I'm just reporting my experience. You're saying you think it's been generally negative over the years? Like, up until now?

HN has been very pro-AI over the last several years. It's only swung back slightly the other way recently. I suspect this is due to tensions in the gulf causing some institutions t…

It would be free labour! Truly crowd-funded development. I'm picturing something like folding@home, but where people donate their spare tokens to a service, and those tokens get di…

Their loss. Think about it. Anthropic just reported that their codebase is now improving itself. We're moments away from every open source repo being able to do the same. Think of …