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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by linsomniac »

Last week I gave Claude Code in Ultracode mode the prompt: "I want a browser-based retro game inspired by Spy Hunter" and gave it the URL to the Spy Hunter (Arcade Game) Wikipedia page.

What came out has a lot of problems and needs refinement, but you can definitely see a lot of elements of Spy Hunter in there. I haven't worked on any refinements yet, because I've been low on tokens this week, but for the first thing that popped out of Claude this is pretty impressive (IMHO).

https://linsomniac.github.io/spychaser/

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by keane »

Zopieux wrote: post #583
jackdoe wrote: post #560

I have had many, but the last one was quite funny: It fixed my printer after dist-upgrade and separate chrome upgrade, the printer worked everywhere but not in chrome. After 30 years of using linux I didn't even want to know what is wrong, is it colord again? dbus + cups issue? I completely accepted that I wont be able to print from chrome for a couple of months until next update. I just ran it in dangerously-skip-pe…

Don't leave us hanging, what was the issue?

At least on Windows and Mac (since about 2017), Chrome doesn’t stay in sync with the printers installed on the OS but retains previous (ghost) profiles. So after printer updates (reinstalls) users will report printing working from Firefox, Edge, and Safari but not Chrome. (From the Chrome print dialog the user is selecting a printer with the same name as the current OS printer but the option displayed in Chrome is cached and since deleted.)

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/81894848/mac-printi...

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/5843479/printer-sti...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255327049

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by unconed »

My "oh shit" moment with AI was when an industry where licensing was the cornerstone of projects and employment contracts decided to just adopt pirated code without any source attribution.

The other one was when a CTO boss sent me an AI proposal to review and the experience was like being gaslit by a con artist.

Many professional developers have started acting like the kind of employee that previously would've been fired after 3 months.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by j_bum »

hgoel wrote: post #182

I've had many, but a recent one was when I figured I'd try asking Claude for help with my attempts at learning to draw, specifically anatomy. I uploaded one of my sketches and asked for feedback, expecting it to not be too useful, but it actually pointed out many issues that no one had ever pointed out to me, but perfectly explained some of the things that felt off to me. Out of curiosity I then also asked it to labe…

Would you be willing to share the annotated example? I’m stunned to hear this, I didn’t know that vision had become so capable.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by 2cynykyl »

I thought mine was when claude found a very subtle but important bug in some open source LBM code I was using. It ground at it for hours and didn't give up until it found it. (Back when claude was cheap!). I recently had a my ACTUAL moment at a conference where the presenter was pitching his book about "One shotting scientific code". He has cooked up 60+ prompts that get you functioning simulations and put them into a book [0]. It floored me to realize I could have just ask claude to write me a whole new LBM solver instead of finding that bug! That raised the bar for me a lot.

[0] https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/97810037340...

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by nowittyusername »

For me it was stable diffusion 1.5. Oh man that thing was the bees knees for mi, imagination on a machine! at that time no UI pure terminal commands, i didnt know jack shit about it and looked like voodoo hacker-man stuff to me... well i persisted anyways because exploring the world of the infinite latent space was amazing. it was like seeing some weard other dimension.. anyways thats how i got addicted to image gen for like 2-3 years. i did it all, loras, fine-tunes, hyhypernetworks, got really technical with it, understood the fundamentals, etc... eventually decided to move on to LLM's as agents were obviously gonna be the future so here i am now building my own voice agent from scratch no sdk, etc... this tech is amazing and i love it. also we are all gonna be fucked because of it but what a ride!

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by hmokiguess »

I think I had a few but they’ve been all short lived and superficial, time made them quickly irrelevant, there was a lot of hype, drama, FOMO, and propaganda around it. That said, I think recently my newest one has been using Voice mode during a car drive. It is very good, like, no latency and it understands nuances of speech very well. I’m convinced voice is where we should be doubling down in terms of UX for the next generation of workflows.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by hashmap »

For me it was probably around coding. It made me realize what future generations of models might be able to achieve, since we have already hit the ceiling of the class of intelligence these models are capable of a long time ago. I am excited at the prospect that a future generation of models might be able to write a piece of code that isn't dogshit.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by robkam »

My skepticism turned into a realization when I first asked an LLM to write anything nontrivial, and it just breezed through it. I am curious why many projects mentioned here seem to take people only a few hours or a weekend at most. I have been using LLMs to help rewrite the Ytree file manager originally written in nineties C. While the AI enables creating code of this complexity, the project still demands months of persistent effort.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by jonyt »

maccard wrote: post #554
jonyt wrote: post #551

Two things, both from this week. First, I asked Claude to write an article based on an idea I had about WWII. In a passage about the futility (from the German side) of the Battle of Britain it wrote: "The Luftwaffe was fighting to unlock a door that opened onto a wall." I couldn't find any mention of a similar metaphor, and I think it's a great one. Claude has really improved its creative writing skills lately, I won…

Would you share the story?

The WWII article, or the bug hunting story?
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