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Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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lolpython wrote: post #424
cribbles wrote: post #411

For those keeping track, this is now (at least) the third wholly or partially AI-generated article on the theme of "taste" as enduring source of human comparative advantage to hit the HN front page. Previously: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677241 You Had No Taste Before AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288551

The author has updated the bottom of the post to clarify that it was not AI-generated. https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left#post-mor...

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Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by no_multitudes »

iainctduncan wrote: post #453
MichaelDickens wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pangram says "100% AI-generated". I trust Pangram more than I trust this author's word.

Are you serious? Pangram is notorios for false positives!

Can you give some examples of Pangram false positives? Ideally ones from before 2024, or otherwise ones from notable writers who started writing before 2024.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by no_multitudes »

tfrancisl wrote: post #419
cribbles wrote: post #411

For those keeping track, this is now (at least) the third wholly or partially AI-generated article on the theme of "taste" as enduring source of human comparative advantage to hit the HN front page. Previously: Taste in the age of AI and LLMs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677241 You Had No Taste Before AI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45288551

This article is not AI generated. Everyone is asserting it is but the author is well known as a critic of these tools in his communities. Why would he lie and use it to write an article with his genuine views, edit it to assuage the feelings of HN commenters, and then double down? Speedrunning losing his credibility, or, his writing style got on some people's nerves?

"And when the floor goes, the thing that decides what is worth keeping is no longer the cost of making it."

I'm 100% confident that a human did not write this sentence unless they were deliberately trying to sound like an LLM. Just look at it! You don't need Pangram. There's a classifier model between your ears that knows how humans write.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by camdenreslink »

NothingAboutAny wrote: post #399
jatora wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are using countless products that are built or have become maintained by AI without realizing it apparently.

I'd believe it, my spotify breaks all the time now and I seem to remember them announcing none of their devs code anymore. not 10 seconds ago I had to force close it to get it to stop playing music on my phone.

I have had to force quit Spotify a couple times recently because it was using many GB of memory to the point where it was unresponsive.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by qwery »

> This post reads off as AI slop. You said it, I see it.

I completely disagree. I think this post has emdashes in the first paragraphs and that most of the people saying that it was generated didn't go any further than that.

Where is the repetition? The sense of deja vu? Where is the artificial sweetener, the overuse of adjectives? Where is the lack of meaning?

Suppose there was a group of highly motivated individuals that saw this article and felt called out by it -- prompt engineers, if you will. Because saying that "taste is all that's left" and that you can't develop taste without doing the work? That's saying that there's something still out of their reach. Something that can't be copied and reproduced ad nauseum.

This article gets at the heart of the issue and calls out -- though not explicitly -- these practitioners. It does this in a calm and reasoned way, in a way that they cannot defend themselves from.

I'm not making the claim that the article is an attack on anyone -- my claim is that a class of people will see it that way and react to that like Gamers seeing a 7/10 review for the game they're hyped for.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by NamlchakKhandro »

MichaelDickens wrote: post #431
lolpython wrote: post #424

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The author has updated the bottom of the post to clarify that it was not AI-generated. https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left#post-mor...

Pangram says "100% AI-generated". I trust Pangram more than I trust this author's word.

oh you trust pangram. ok i now trust pangram....

lmfao.. what were you hoping to astroturf with that?

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by [deleted] »

rpdillon wrote: post #457
MichaelDickens wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pangram says "100% AI-generated". I trust Pangram more than I trust this author's word.

Pangram is a complete scam. There is no durable way to detect whether something was written with AI. I've had folks say they ran pangram on my writing and it was "100% AI". Except I don't use AI to write or edit anything I post publicly.

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Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by tfrancisl »

no_multitudes wrote: post #473
tfrancisl wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This article is not AI generated. Everyone is asserting it is but the author is well known as a critic of these tools in his communities. Why would he lie and use it to write an article with his genuine views, edit it to assuage the feelings of HN commenters, and then double down? Speedrunning losing his credibility, or, his writing style got on some people's nerves?

"And when the floor goes, the thing that decides what is worth keeping is no longer the cost of making it." I'm 100% confident that a human did not write this sentence unless they were deliberately trying to sound like an LLM. Just look at it! You don't need Pangram. There's a classifier model between your ears that knows how humans write.

I'd retrain that model if I were you.

Re: Taste Is All That's Left

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Post by hexedpackets »

Krei-se wrote: post #168
jatora wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are using countless products that are built or have become maintained by AI without realizing it apparently.

Name them. Just 2! Any example would be enough. Or well better than 0 and just a claim.

We can only guess what products you use, but I'll take a stab by naming some big ones:

Spotify - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-deve...

Netflix - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/22/netflix-all-in-on-leveraging...

Stripe - https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-...

Discord - https://discord.com/blog/developing-rapidly-with-generative-...

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