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Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by phist_mcgee »

rubzah wrote: post #554
phist_mcgee wrote: post #537

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Am I an untrained human if I believe that Claude Opus 4.6 produces generally better code than I do in most circumstances? Even with years as a principal engineer at a company with high coding standards and engineering processes?

Maybe not untrained, but you work on some easy, boring shit. That may be true for a lot of developers, I don't know.

What do you reckon? Do you think that is true for me and thousands of others, or that your opinion on this is too narrow and rigid?

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by laserlight »

Rechtsstaat wrote: post #559
unnamed76ri wrote: post #553

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I'd argue that for informal uses like HN, this is very much okay! It's grammatically correct and gets the point across. And most importantly, these paragraphs read more like someone's personal voice than some pithy but edited-to-death couple of sentences.

> gets the point across

If people don't read because the text is an unreadable mess, none of the points get across.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by whaleofatw2022 »

jaapz wrote: post #531
muzani wrote: post #511

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They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

> Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. The musician in me just shed a tear

Pink Beatles, in a purple Zeppelin comes to mind

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by criley2 »

jaapz wrote: post #531
muzani wrote: post #511

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They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

> Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. The musician in me just shed a tear

Modern music has done this to itself. When the human product is already pure corporate slop, it's not hard for AI to compete.

Hopefully AI outcompeting humans at slop sparks a renaissance of humans creating truly beautiful human artwork. And if it doesn't, then was anything of value truly lost?

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by laum »

laserlight wrote: post #573
Rechtsstaat wrote: post #559

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I'd argue that for informal uses like HN, this is very much okay! It's grammatically correct and gets the point across. And most importantly, these paragraphs read more like someone's personal voice than some pithy but edited-to-death couple of sentences.

> gets the point across If people don't read because the text is an unreadable mess, none of the points get across.

tbh I quite like the style, I get the train of thought and am sure it wasn't written by an LLM.

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by Peaches4Rent »

unnamed76ri wrote: post #553
asim wrote: post #545

Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments. But I think you finally see a little bit of a flaw in the strategy or just a little bit of insight into what was desperation for relevance and to try to very quickly attain what other companies have attained but essentially what they're seeing is this gradual reduction in ambition and…

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Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by seedboot »

jaapz wrote: post #531
muzani wrote: post #511

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're different impulses. Some want to consume. Others want to create. TikTok and social media is a strange mix of both, people posting response videos to everything. Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. It's free, it's good enough, and it's not grating to hear after a few days of that favorite…

> Personally, I've stopped subscribing to Spotify, YT music, etc because the slop from Suno is good enough to replace mainstream music or whatever lofi playlist. The musician in me just shed a tear

That comment for sure made me sad

Re: Goodbye to Sora

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Post by customguy »

laserlight wrote: post #573
Rechtsstaat wrote: post #559

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd argue that for informal uses like HN, this is very much okay! It's grammatically correct and gets the point across. And most importantly, these paragraphs read more like someone's personal voice than some pithy but edited-to-death couple of sentences.

> gets the point across If people don't read because the text is an unreadable mess, none of the points get across.

I'm a a people. I read it. If you call this an unreadable mess I really don't know what to say. Language is awesome, and it's awesome we can create infinitely long sentences with it. And like open source, if you don't like it, write the one you like :)

A long time ago on the myspace forums there was this slightly weird but also very wise and smart person who wrote without any punctuation or paragraphs, ever. Although they were generally liked and part of the community, I think I was the only person who read every single one of their comments in full, religiously, once I realized how insightful they were, and I was richer for it. I could have told them the obvious, how their posts differ from most others on the forums; and they would have posted with less joy and maybe less overall, that would have been it.

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