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

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Post by fzzzy »

darksim905 wrote: post #434
AussieWog93 wrote: post #268

Literally just last night I have Claude Code the following prompt, verbatim: "Whenever I launch Kodi on my Chromecast 4k, it crashes. I think this is related to a plugin or skin. It goes away for a bit if I clear cache but will eventually come back. Can you connect to the device via adb (I've run adb connect already), and debug exactly where it's crashing? Once you've done that, propose a solution. If this requires d…

I know this isn't apples to apples, but given that I can't get Copilot or other tools to view a simple profile page on LinkedIn makes me curious/skeptical how this would work in this depth. I'm sure it's possible but I'm curious what the skills and toolchains involved were for you to get all that to work.

The claude desktop app can drive the real chrome, so it’s less likely to get blocked

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

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Post by fzzzy »

mlmonkey wrote: post #120

I have a buddy who's a consultant. His niche area is Netsuite and Oracle (I think). He's an accountant by training and as a consultant his gig was setting up these instances for clients, charging them an arm and two legs. He'd spend a lot of time golfing, and doing these setups was more than enough money for him. In other words, he had cornered that little slice of the market and was making bank. Shortly after ChatGP…

it was 3.5. 3.5 was the first version named chatgpt instead of just gpt.

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

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

idiotsecant wrote: post #486
jsharf wrote: post #310

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Related story, while applying a firmware update to my Kawai CA49 piano, I bricked it due to flashing the wrong file (The process was broken, and I got desperate and tried something stupid, which bricked the piano). Claude walked me through looking for signs of life, and since OTA from the phone app wasn't working for me, it downloaded the Kawai Android APK, decompiled the Java, figured out the hardcoded key used for…

I can't imagine where we are headed. You understand every step of what it did and can appreciate the complexity but it'll only take a few generations for this to become something like magic to the tech priests beseeching the machine spirits for blessings

Honestly, don't think so. That's certainly the path one might extrapolate if the next generation grows up exactly the same way as the current generation, but that's not how it works.

They will be exposed to this technology throughout childhood as their brains develop and they will develop unique ways to work with it we don't entirely understand just like GenY with cell phones and GenX with home computers. I think you deeply underestimate how adaptable we are as a species, but if you consider that we've been running the same OS and Bios as a species for the past ~40K years, perhaps you might be more optimistic?

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

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Post by NamTaf »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #268

Literally just last night I have Claude Code the following prompt, verbatim: "Whenever I launch Kodi on my Chromecast 4k, it crashes. I think this is related to a plugin or skin. It goes away for a bit if I clear cache but will eventually come back. Can you connect to the device via adb (I've run adb connect already), and debug exactly where it's crashing? Once you've done that, propose a solution. If this requires d…

You know, I've had this exact bug for some time on a Fire Stick 4K Max Gen 1 (similarly anaemic). I figured it was storage or RAM pressure causing the problem as I could see both were close to the limit, but didn't realise it was OS swap/cache eviction removing critical files as it only happened to Kodi.

I assumed Kodi just didn't really clean up after itself fully and after a bunch of heavy uses some cruft built up, taking up some threshold amount of storage, and then Kodi couldn't extract some temp data on start-up. I also assumed Kodi was adversely affected due to having a biigger asset pool than the other apps I have on my device.

Token-wise, could you give an idea of the rough cost of this?

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

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Post by sntran »

zahlman wrote: post #725
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…

A lot of the time people relate an anecdote about how Claude helped do some cool thing, my reaction is that it's not a thing I would have thought about doing in the first place, and that I still can't really imagine wanting to do myself, even though it indeed sounds cool. This is no exception.

You will be surprised that there are lots of things you want to do yourself but haven't been able to (not just ability, but time and effort).

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

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Post by dpcan »

Day 1.

I remember firing up gpt and asking for some code. It was simple JavaScript to solve a problem and I knew immediately, this was the beginning of the end for software development as we knew it.

I built an app I struggled to create for years in a weekend.

Started playing with the API, etc.

I was very much in my oh-no period that very first few months.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #673
buckle8017 wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gemini almost killed you. The exhaust blower not working triggered a safety that prevented the furnace from firing. Spinning it bypassed the safety. You likely inhaled a lot more carbon monoxide than you know.

There are multiple continuous safety checks on such a system, and there was no risk of injury here. The fan itself is constantly monitored. Much more importantly, the pressure on the exhaust chamber is constantly measured (which can catch things like blocked outlets, a fan that might be spinning but not effective, etc). If the exhaust fan couldn't maintain that negative pressure after the user stopped spinning it, th…

This is all true.

What is also true: If the induction blower/draft inducer/fan-thing/widget is not creating enough pressure differential to trigger the switch that exists just to monitor this condition, then the gas valve will not be opened to begin with. Therefore, there will be no fuel.

Without fuel, there can be no combustion. Without combustion, there are no combustion products. This lack of combustion products does not produce any particular danger. :)

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

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Post by [deleted] »

skwirl wrote: post #781
awbvious wrote: post #592

Not sure, but I can tell you what my "oh s** astroturfing is so bad, it's even in Hacker News" moment. And if I learned GenAI was used to make some of the astroturf, that's more an "ah s* “ than an "oh s* “ thing. I mean, the prominence, ubiquity, and breathlessness. One out of three, sure. Two out of three, maybe. And some corpo shilling definitely happens here. But this is like, well, covering an entire area with a…

You have joined a year and a half ago, have low activity, and 74 karma. OP has been here for over a decade and has loads of activity. You aren't in a position to post this.

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