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Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by linsomniac »

jb_briant wrote: post #492

I'm making a 3D game and I hate flat worlds, a planet is much more elegant, both finite and infinite in gameplay terms since the surface is not expandable, but you can't hit a world border at the same time. Cartesian coordinates doesn't work well for the player so I wanted a lat/long/altitude grid system. I could have spent few days walking through stackoverflow and debuging my upcoming flawed implementation. ChatGPT…

I've been playing with making some retro games using Claude.

Rally-X inspired retro arcade game in the browser: https://linsomniac.github.io/rally-xy/

A nsnipes networked multiplayer maze shooter game (also browser based but it needs a server for the networked multiplayer part): https://github.com/linsomniac/isnipes

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by lobf »

kstrauser wrote: post #143

I have a large token budget as part of my work. A coworker was scanning some repos for vulnerabilities as a test. He found a scary looking remote exploit in a popular project and shared it with me for a second opinion. I spun up a local instance of the project and ran the POC against it: nothing. Turns out it needed some configuration knobs tweaked to lower some security protections. So I told the AI what happened, a…

Sorry, what does POC mean in this context? I don’t see an earlier combination of words for which that would be an initialism.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by mattmanser »

jzemeocala wrote: post #118

I bought an Alesis QS8.1 super cheap in perfect condition (was a top grade digital piano/synth in the 90s). and then i realized that ALL of the software (which i collected from defunct websites and archived on github) related to it was ancient and after a while of getting tired of using WINE every single time i decided i wanted a cross platform modern equivalent that did everything that several of these different pro…

With stuff like this, do you honestly not feel that you've probably been tricked and that someone else actually did this?

Don't get me wrong, I think AI can do some surprising things, but with stuff like this, often it just stole the code and the steps without attribution, it didn't figure it out.

There'll probably be a blog post detailing exactly how to do this somewhere and Claude just copied the steps and code.

And worse, Google search would have found it 10 years ago, but Google search today would claim there are no results?

I think incredibly specific stuff like this often won't pass the 'did Claude just steal this?' test when you dig into it.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by gregsadetsky »

lobf wrote: post #503
kstrauser wrote: post #143

I have a large token budget as part of my work. A coworker was scanning some repos for vulnerabilities as a test. He found a scary looking remote exploit in a popular project and shared it with me for a second opinion. I spun up a local instance of the project and ran the POC against it: nothing. Turns out it needed some configuration knobs tweaked to lower some security protections. So I told the AI what happened, a…

Sorry, what does POC mean in this context? I don’t see an earlier combination of words for which that would be an initialism.

proof of concept

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by fragmede »

doctorwho42 wrote: post #474
shreddude wrote: post #44

I could go on and on, but Claude recently decompiled the firmware of my camper van, documented all the CAN interfaces, then programmed an ESP32 module to talk to the van’s integrated systems (power, HVAC, lighting, tanks). That sort of embedded systems integration is completely out of my wheelhouse. I honestly don’t understand AI naysayers. I use Claude every day both professionally as a Solution Architect and person…

Maybe because the scale of investment out strips the value? What trillion dollar problem is AI solving?

If you're going to put it that way, companies, globally, spend something on the order of $20 trillion on office workers. If corporations didn't have to spend that money on them, and everything else in order to support them, they wouldn't.

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by comment0r »

sajithdilshan wrote: post #192

For me it was last February or so when I started using Opus. But today I watched a video from Andrej Karpathy on YouTube on how LLMs works and my illusions got completely shattered. Turns out they are a glorified autocomplete. All the engineering happens actually on the harness

Which video, please?

Re: Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?

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Post by grumblepeet »

My bath hot tap suddenly broke apart and was spilling hot water into the bath. I photographed everything and ChatGPT told me step by step what bits to get to fix it, and how to reassemble it.

A few weeks later some kids in the area were bending the wiper arms in cars in my terraced street, including my car. I thought, I wonder if ChatGPT can help? It explained to me where to get the parts online, an indication of a decent price, and how to fit the replacement parts.

In work we had struggled with filling out the myriad of forms that we need to do to get enrolled on a government framework to apply for contracts. Not only did it do that and explained what we needed to say, but it also told us in detail the steps we needed to follow to get the certification that was a prerequisite. It has genuinely transformed our business as a result.

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