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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 ekjhgkejhgk »

byb wrote: post #422
ekjhgkejhgk wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the only way to stem to tide is I see no evidence thats the only way. Its the only way that has crossed your mind as you were writing that message.

The two alternative solutions posed so far are 1) drop the ai bounty program 2) charge for submissions. Present an alternative.

No, I dont have to. I never claimed I had an alternative.

All I claimed was that saying theres not alternative is unsubstantiated and you proved me right, by listing those alternatives.

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

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Post by AtNightWeCode »

rchaud wrote: post #412
AtNightWeCode wrote: post #261

Fun fact. I posted that post into Claude and asked if it was AI. Claude totally trashed the post.

Perhaps for your next post you could ask Claude for the definition of a "fun fact".

Typical Claude answer to not see the irony and whine about it.

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

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Post by 0x457 »

alchemist1e9 wrote: post #142
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?

It's just em dash is the correct symbol, and typing it on Mac is simple: `cmd + -`

You can tell if I'm using mac or not for specific comment by the presence of em dash.

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

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Post by NewsaHackO »

baobun wrote: post #324
JackFr wrote: post #313

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> As a side note, if anyone I'm communicating with - personally or in business - sends responses that sound like they were written by ChatGPT 3.5, 4o, GPT-5-low, etc, I don't take anything they write seriously anymore. What if they are a very limited English speaker, using the AI to tighten up their responses into grammatical, idiomatic English?

I'd rather have broken grammar and an honest and useful meta-signal than botched semantics. Also that better not be a sensitive conversation or contain personal details or business internals of others... Just don't.

But the meta singal you get is detrimental to the writer, so why wouldn't they want to mask it?

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

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Post by yonatan8070 »

cgearhart wrote: post #252
spicyusername wrote: post #208

The amount of text alone in the original post was a giveaway. LLMs produce so much text, including code, and most of it is not needed.

I keep talking to people who say stuff like “Claude wrote it all for me in a day”, but when I look at the code (or try it myself) it’s just so much useless code. I recently asked for Python code to parse some data into a Pandas dataframe and got 1k lines plus tests. Whatever—I’m just importing it, so let’s YOLO and see what happens. Worked like a charm in my local environment. But I wanted to share this in a Jupyter…

I'm using ChatGPT to generate some code for me quite often, and my instructions prompt for all chats is slowly gaining more and more ways to say "Answer shortly". And I need to prompt defensively to repeatedly tell it to only do what I tell it.

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

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Post by lm28469 »

Sharlin wrote: post #131
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…

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

If seen more than one post on reddit being answered by a screenshot of a chatgpt mobile app including OP's question and the llm's answer

Imagine the amount of energy and compute power used...

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

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Post by habinero »

NewsaHackO wrote: post #474
baobun wrote: post #324

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd rather have broken grammar and an honest and useful meta-signal than botched semantics. Also that better not be a sensitive conversation or contain personal details or business internals of others... Just don't.

But the meta singal you get is detrimental to the writer, so why wouldn't they want to mask it?

If I think you're fluent, I might think you're an idiot when really you just don't understand.

If I know they struggle with English, I can simplify my vocabulary, speak slower/enunciate, and check in occasionally to make sure I'm communicating in a way they can follow.

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

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Post by bombcar »

genter wrote: post #391
philipwhiuk wrote: post #322

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bagder is both extremely grumpy about the state of it and fascinatingly patient. He's like 80% wise old barn owl.

Here's a list of AI slop reports: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/14/death-by-a-thousand-s... I've read all of them. It's interesting how over the last 2 years badger moved from being polite to zero fucks given.

He goes from badger to badger badger badger (mushroom) to honey badger to (next step) bagger 288.

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

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Post by bombcar »

rdtsc wrote: post #454

I wonder what's going on in the minds of these people. I would just be terribly embarrassed and not be able to look at myself in the mirror if I did shit like this. > batuhanilgarr posted a comment (6 days ago) Thanks for the quick review. You’re right ... On one hand, it's sort of surprising that they double down, copy and paste the response to the llm prompt, paste back that response and hope for the best. But, of…

It’s a game to them, they don’t care.

They likely live somewhere where a $50 beg bounty would be half a year’s work.

How do you feel about pixels in a video game? That’s all the maintainer is to them.

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

WhyNotHugo wrote: post #383
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #109

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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.

You'd need a time machine, it only tracks prior to the release of ChatGPT.
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