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Author here. I definitely agree that communicating well is a prerequisite to getting decent results. On the other hand: 1. Even if you communicate perfectly, there's no guarantee t…

> Every sentence says something. Every sentence is important and holds its weight. [...] Also, it makes the post harder (and more boring) to read. I actually prefer that style of w…

We sorely need a way to reliably detect AI slop, but unfortunately it doesn't seem possible and it's just getting harder and harder. Last month I tried my hand at finding a way to …

I recently ran an experiment where I tried to use _quantitative signals_ (and not _qualitative_ ones) to tell whether something is vibe-coded or not. My idea was that, if I see tha…

I just finished¹ building an experimental tool that tries to figure out if a repo is slopware or not just by looking at it's git history (plus some GitHub activity data). The takea…

Yeah, maybe it's that, though I still wouldn't expect someone to categorize the post as blogspam, even if they just glance at it. (At least according to my definition of blogspam, …

I gave up on r/programming after an article I wrote (thoughtfully, without AI, even though the content might not have been super interesting) got mod-slapped with a stickied commen…

Oh, interesting, I didn't know about this project, thanks for sharing! I tried to implement something like this for the search functionality, but ended up going with "old school" l…

> The intention of this is to reduce hallucination on information extraction, right? Correct. > Also, how do you convert your docs / information into JSON documents? Right now you …

The problem with using markdown for this is that it's unstructured, so when the LLM does calculations on it, extracting data is error prone, you're never sure what exactly gets ext…

That would simplify things, but in my opinion that is still too high a hurdle. I'm all about privacy and FOSS, but I don't self-host anything (except for my personal website). I wi…

I only use GitHub (and actions) for personal open-source projects, so I can't really complain because I'm getting everything for free¹. But even for those projects I recently had t…

Ah yeah, I understand now. And I also agree with the quote then! (Though it does change the nature of the job, and it's not terribly enjoyable...)

> your methodology would seem to be a reasonable approach/response to get the benefits of this and to shield against the detriments If you're referring to the sandboxing / isolatio…

Yeah, I agree, though it wants to be slightly provocative as well: it's all about you, your data, your software, your rights.

Correct. Admittedly, graphic design is not even my passion , so there's probably lots of room for improvement. But at this point I've grown accustomed to the friendly face. :D

Yes! That's more or less the angle I'm going for. I mean, I don't aim just yet for Emacs-levels of malleability, but at least for something where you can create some useful day to …

I'm building an app that is, in a way, a modern take on Lotus Notes ( https://github.com/superegodev/superego ), and I couldn't feel this more: > It is hard, today, to explain exac…

Very cool project! Question regarding the pluggable js engine: I have an electron app where I'm currently using QuickJS to run LLM-generated code. Would edge.js be able (theoretica…

Oh, interesting perspective. I'm Italian, but from an Alpine valley not far from Austria, so I don't know what I should prefer. :D But joking aside, putting it like that I'd think …

> They act like terribly arrogant agents Oh I feel that. I sometimes ask ChatGPT for "a review, pull no punches" of something I'm writing, and my god, the answers really get on my …

Ah OK sorry, I misinterpreted. But yes, I double checked one case and I am indeed setting the parameter explicitly (defaulting to medium effort). But no luck. It feels like the mod…

> I've had such the opposite experience Yeah, I've actually heard many other people swear by the GPTs / Codex. I wonder what factors make one "click" with a model and not with anot…