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Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Lerc »

dansmith1919 wrote: post #10

Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…

I felt like it was more likely to be a complete absence of a human in the loop.

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Post by esalman »

mock-possum wrote: post #357
jmuguy wrote: post #332

This is essentially what teachers are dealing with every day, across the majority of their students, for every subject where its even remotely possible to use AI.

Why not deal with it the same way teachers have always felt with students breaking the rules?

I mentioned it already, my sister resigned from her tenure track position due to a fight over this. She was strict, students reported her, faculty wouldn't assign her choice course, she resigned after one and a half year.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #109
Ralfp wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People usually don't type embdash, just use regular dash (minus sign) they have already on the keyboard. ChatGPT uses emdash instead.

Ahem. https://www.gally.net/miscellaneous/hn-em-dash-user-leaderbo... As #9 on the leaderboard I feel like I need to defend myself.

I’m disappointed that I’m on it — I’ll have to try harder.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

crabmusket wrote: post #276
fao_ wrote: post #183

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On Linux I just type (in sequence): compose - - and it makes an em dash, it takes a quarter of a second longer to produce this. I don't know why the compose key isn't used more often.

[As an English typer] Where is this compose key on my keyboard? (This is a vaguely Socratic answer to the question of why the compose key is not more often used.)

It’s not mapped to any key by default. A common choice is the right alt key.

I wrote a short guide about it last year: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2024/07/12/typing-non-english-...

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by WhyNotHugo »

mock-possum wrote: post #351
teddyh wrote: post #279

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Compose--.” produces an en dash , not an em dash. An em dash is produced by “Compose---”. Source: grep -e DASH /usr/share/X11/locale/*/Compose

As it should be. I wish this convention were present across more software, “-“ “- -“ and “- - -“ should be the UI norm for entering proper dashes in text input controls.

Most software handles this fine if you configure your compositor to use a compose key.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by criddell »

jmuguy wrote: post #362
mock-possum wrote: post #357

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Why not deal with it the same way teachers have always felt with students breaking the rules?

Wife is a high school history teacher - she would have to flunk 75% of her students. That is after proving they used AI, which would be extremely time consuming. Its very demoralizing for her, she has to spend a lot of time reading written essays generated by AI. I think given time educators will adapt. Unless they get burnt out first. She could also just not give a shit and they let go on to be some college professo…

The educators will adapt. They might use AIs to grade papers written by AIs.

Or, do what my kids' school did for some classes. Instead of teaching in class and then assigning homework, the homework will be reading a text book and classroom time will be spent writing essays by hand, doing exercises, answering questions, etc...

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Post by mhuffman »

jtwaleson wrote: post #59
rpigab wrote: post #13

"I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast"

There should be a language that uses "Almost-In-Time" compilation. If it runs out of time, it just gives a random answer.

You should send a pull request to DreamBerd/Gulf of Mexico[0], it's surely the only language that can handle it properly!

[0]https://github.com/TodePond/GulfOfMexico

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by pbronez »

alexpotato wrote: post #371
Sharlin wrote: post #131

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Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

I watched someone do this during an interview. They were literally copy and pasting back and forth the LLM. In front of the interviewers! (myself and another co-worker) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44985254

How far did they get? Did they solve the problem?

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by Groxx »

jsheard wrote: post #17
stahorn wrote: post #14

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You're doing it wrong: You should just feed other peoples AI-generated responses into your own AI tools and let the tool answer for you! The loop is then closed, no human time wasted, and the only effect is wasted energy to run the AI tools. It's the perfect business model to turn energy into money.

You joke, but some companies are pushing this idea unironically by putting "use AI to expand a short message into a bloated mess" and "use AI to turn a bloated mess into a brief summary" into both sides of the same product. Good job everyone, we've invented the opposite of data compression.

of course they are. that way they can sell both the shovels and the shit.
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