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I could take your comment and use it as a prompt and depending on the model quality it will have been an ex-bug
The fact that things like that get into a production app at all is the bigger point. AI slop doesn't even hit a base level of "it works on my machine". When some piece of an app just doesn't work, regardless of whether it was LLM-generated or not, it means there was no QA done on the app. Or at least, not enough. That is why the term "AI slop" exists. Not because AI cannot produce working code - we all know it can -…
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This was also my first instinct. Wikipedia says the US Baseball Hall of Fame has 351 inductees currently, for a sport that has existed in professional form since 1876. That feels like a more appropriate rate for this kind of enshrinement. Over 3000 in the span of less than 20 years is far too fast. The entire English language literary canon doesn't have that many entries.
on the other hand, there are much more links than baseball players. also there are only around 1k hall of fame links, the rest are candidates (i.e. have not met all requirements - 5+ submissions · 3+ distinct submitters · 3+ active years · 2 qualifying breakout events from different submitters at least 720 days apart) i do accept thought that i have exaggerated in the title)