You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
#2Wait until you hear about Common Lisp’s string formatter.
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
#4Wait until you hear about Common Lisp’s string formatter.
Want to share some details?
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all.
The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission(!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it as AI generated.
I'd much rather people gave submissions the benefit of the doubt, or just clicked `Flag` if it is obviously worthless slop.
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all. The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission (!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it a…
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Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all. The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission (!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it a…
It's moreso the "AI-isms" that irk me. It's interesting, but I'm not finishing the video because once I notice it -- I can't help but focus on it. Instead, I tl;dr'd the transcript.
People question my use of AI when I double `-` with an iPhone on the internet constantly.[0] I get it, it's annoying.
However, if our barrier for quality is "at it's core, the content of this is interesting", then the quality of this place will fall off a cliff. This is factoid-level interesting. It's not a hacker writing something profound or presenting a breakthrough in garbled grade 8 English. It's a fun fact being presented in an acceptably, inoffensive, reasonably produced format.. Is that the bar?
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all. The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission (!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it a…
> It's the fact that every...single...submission(!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it as AI generated.
Then, when finally neither the topic nor the content has anything to do with AI, "It's so nice to read something on HN not mentioning AI" in the comments.
HN has made a clear decision on when AI content is acceptable on the site itself, it'd be nice if there was a clear decision on the linked content as well. Regardless whether it's the policy I'd personally prefer or not, it'd do a lot in regards to avoiding the same discussion appearing everywhere.
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
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If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all. The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission (!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it a…
> If it's interesting then it's not spam
Disagree.
Just like those spam 'articles' that may at their core be interesting or have some value - but force you to click past 4 ads and scroll over/filter out another 17 just to extract the promised value - noticing that content you're consuming is obviously AI generated results in two things:
1. resentment that your time and attention was wasted by machine generated word-padding, and
2. a loss of confidence in the accuracy of the information presented
Re: You Only Use 10% of Printf() – Here Are Things They Didn't Teach You [video]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's interesting then it's not spam. And why should you care if AI was utilized or not if you found it interesting? Dave (from that video) is an experienced engineer after all. The worst part of GenAI seems not to be AI slop (I can easily close the tab if the content isn't interesting). It's the fact that every...single...submission (!!!) on HN now has someone questioning and dissecting the content to dismiss it a…
It's moreso the "AI-isms" that irk me. It's interesting, but I'm not finishing the video because once I notice it -- I can't help but focus on it. Instead, I tl;dr'd the transcript. People question my use of AI when I double `-` with an iPhone on the internet constantly.[0] I get it, it's annoying. However, if our barrier for quality is "at it's core, the content of this is interesting", then the quality of this plac…
Dave (the guy in that video) is an older timer Microsoft engineer. I don't know if he used AI to help compose his script but you can guarantee the subject matter is from his own experience.
I suspect the AI-isms you identified were really just more his own personal presentation style. I've watched a few of his videos over the years and from what I recall, they were similarly written.