Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Taste Is All That's Left

notashelf.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

61–70 of 573 posts

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#61

Post by madprops »

I tend to like images in a split second, when they try to achieve a certain aesthetic at least. I can later inspect them more carefully and understand why they're good.

Reading text, it can either grab me or it doesn't. I've asked about that to an AI and there's some reason for that. Some text is more compatible with me, due to the rhythm or combination of chars/words used, how they actually look/feel, it's not just about the content. So I'm assuming some writers are going to be more compatible with me while others will make me dismiss them quickly or just skim.

I like to think I have the correct objective taste in music, but everybody thinks that about themselves.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#62

Post by the_af »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #2

[flagged]

> Who the FUCK speaks like that?

Do you mean starting sentences with "But"? I do, but then again I'm not a native speaker and my writing may be nonstandard. Or do you mean short and direct sentences? In which case, Hemingway.

I'm not saying the article isn't AI slop, but I think it's not obvious from the specific sample you chose, since plenty of people online write like that, before AI.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#64

Post by dvt »

causal wrote: post #51
amberjack wrote: post #44

[flagged]

It's also just patently false. Taste is not all that is left. Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?

> Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?

Frankly, this barely scratches the surface of the hubris of engineers. I personally think AI has been one of the best things to happen to software engineering. Writing boilerplate or my millionth auth implementation was never why I fell in love with the craft in the first place.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#65

Post by Krei-se »

sparkling wrote: post #58
causal wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also just patently false. Taste is not all that is left. Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?

What is left? The second-best architecture for any given technical problem is, in the majority of cases, still good enough.

When all else breaks, absurd() is your friend.

So i guess proven secure architecture will come and stay.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#66

Post by 9rx »

throwaway_7274 wrote: post #26
TacticalCoder wrote: post #2

[flagged]

More importantly, why are there always 30 people who insist that you can’t know it’s claudeslop? Or, “so what if it is,” or something like this? It boggles the mind.

What boggles your mind is not that people are falling for the genetic fallacy, but that others are calling them out for falling for it?

Does this stem from you believing that there is value in making logical errors, or is your angle more towards believing that nobody should waste their time interacting with someone who makes logical errors?

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#67

Post by pydry »

dvt wrote: post #64
causal wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also just patently false. Taste is not all that is left. Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product?

> Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product? Frankly, this barely scratches the surface of the hubris of engineers. I personally think AI has been one of the best things to happen to software engineering. Writing boilerplate or my millionth auth implementation was never why I fell in love with the craft in the first place.

Spewing out tons of boilerplate has always been the hallmark of a bad engineer.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

#69

Post by qsera »

onion2k wrote: post #60

People will always want something to gatekeep their chosen field. Code went away, so now people need to be able to say if the machine wrote good code. In a year or two people won't be able to use that because the code will be measurably better than something a typical dev would write, and in five years it'll be better than anything anyone could write. Then we'll need to accept that coding is better when it's done by…

In couple of years data compression will have progressed so much that you ll be able to store all the data in the world on a floppy disk!
Post reply on HN