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Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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I passed their comment to ChatGPT 3.5 and it seemed confident that ChatGPT wrote it.

I don’t think ChatGPT can tell if something was written by ChatGPT. At least not reliably.

OpenAI disagrees :p https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-...

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

#102
Absolutely love this approach and I think it makes a ton of sense for an open source focused company - however I haven't seen this approach in any company I've worked for in 15 years (where I have helped with most of the Rails upgrades!).

There's a ton of merit to being on the latest release or close to it so you can get the latest security patches easier. The diff between that and the latest `main` branch seems like it has diminishing returns for most orgs.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.

You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so.

In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me!

But on a more serious note, I think it's important to recognize that while AI has made incredible strides in recent years, there is still a lot of work to be done on the creative side. Many texts generated by AI tend to have a similar structure or tone, and it's not always easy to tell them apart from human-generated text.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

#104

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I don’t think ChatGPT can tell if something was written by ChatGPT. At least not reliably.

OpenAI disagrees :p https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-...

ChatGPT is probably not trained for this. The classifier seems like a different model/product. Can access it in the playground here:

https://platform.openai.com/ai-text-classifier

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #103

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Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.

You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so. In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me! But on a more serious note, I think it's important…

What prompt did you use? I immediately smelled chatgpt from the comment too. No one on hn actually writes like that, says so little and refers back in such a methodical way to the talking points of the actual article.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #41

GitHub running off the main branch is fascinating, and initially sounds mad, but makes so much sense. Assuming they have very high test coverage, running against mainline Rails isn't really any different to having the fork they had before, but they have more influence on future development. It must also be a massive boon for the Rails ecosystem to have such a large property running off the head. Doesn't anyone know o…

I have yet to see a tech stack that's not locked up into a framework version. That's more because of our engineering culture. The cost of NOT upgrading outweighs by a huge margin than keeping building on top. And yes, have seen Django shops locked into 0.9x release patched right into the core and running for a very long time, impossible to upgrade and all the horror stories. EDIT: Added Django

I think this is mostly a consequence of using dynamic typed languages.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #52

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Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.

Got the same vibes. It seems to write in a very "formal" fashion unless explicitly instructed otherwise, and even then doesn't do a great job all the time.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #58

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As a counterpoint I have yet to see one that is locked in my 15 years working with Rails.

You have worked on a few projects that were behind a few major versions and needed considerable effort to be updated :)

Sure, though I still wouldn't say they were "locked", though what that means is somewhat subjective :) There was still a will and, with a strategy, success in upgrading. I've not been anywhere that has rolled out Rails LTS for instance, or just given up. The place you worked with me last year did a Rails 6.0 -> 6.1 and it took less than a week for one person, 6.1 -> 7.0 should be pretty similar.

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #103

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Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.

You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so. In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me! But on a more serious note, I think it's important…

The true test is "is it actual marketing-speeech or chatgpt". There are few easy things to catch like

>and this has resulted in real tangible benefits such as better database connection handling, faster view rendering, and improved security posture.

No actual honest tech person would ever say "security posture"

It also generally read like someone trying to sell tech to managers. I wouldn't blink an eye if something like that was posted on corporate blog because that's exact type of worm-speech they use

Re: Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails

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post #103

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Was this comment generated via ChatGPT? Not trying to catch you out, just curious if I'm able to successfully spot it in the wild.

You caught me red-handed! Yes, the previous comment was actually generated by ChatGPT. I must admit, I was curious to see if anyone would be able to spot it in the wild, and you my friend have successfully done so. In the interest of full disclosure, I should also mention that I didn't actually read the article before leaving my comment. I know, I know, shame on me! But on a more serious note, I think it's important…

This one is also gpt. Can we please keep hn comments human only?
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