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Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by Goofy_Coyote »

HendrikHensen wrote: post #144
longnguyen wrote: post #103

The essay is quite similar to this one from strangestloop.io[0] [0]: https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...

Honestly, it feels like straight up plagiarism. When I saw the title, I thought I knew which website was posted because I had seen it before. When I clicked, I saw an unfamiliar website and was surprised that it was posted 3 days ago rather than a couple months ago. The contents are so similar, that it cannot be coincidence. It really seems like the author of this blog simply plagiarized the strangestloop post withou…

Same thoughts here. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, thought it might be an adoption for a specific field, or an extension of thought, or maybe a fun twist or something.

This is a tasteless copy.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by direwolf20 »

lufenialif2 wrote: post #169
maerch wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s already happening. This came up in a webinar attended by someone from our sales team: > "A typo or two also helps to show it’s not AI (one of the biggest issues right now)."

When it comes to forum posts, I think getting to the point quickly makes something worth reading whether or not it’s AI generated. The best marketing is usually brief.

The best marketing is indistinguishable from non–marketing, like the label on the side of my Contoso® Widget-like Electrical Machine™ — it feels like a list of ingredients and system requirements but every brand name there was sponsored.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by ge96 »

This is something I ran into, ego satisfaction, where you tell people/show things like concepts, talk about it, get the "that sounds cool" but yeah it's not real. I now try to build something real like a hardware project before showing it.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by nly »

jackfranklyn wrote: post #77

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Depends what "doing it badly" means.

The most important aspect of software design, at least with respect to software that you intend not to completely throw away and will be used by at least one other person, is that it is easy to change, and remains easy to change.

Whether it works properly or not, whether it's ugly and hacky or not, or whether it's slow... none of that matters. If it's easy to change you can fix it later.

Put a well thought out but minimal API around your code. Make it a magic black box. Maintain that API forever. Test only the APIs you ship.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by 1317 »

COMMENT___ wrote: post #186

Oh, now HN is discussing a meaningless copy-pasted self promotion blog post. I guess this says something about the current state of the HN community.

most of the time the article doesn't matter that much and you can still have interesting discussions of the topic at hand

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by gordonhart »

COMMENT___ wrote: post #186

Oh, now HN is discussing a meaningless copy-pasted self promotion blog post. I guess this says something about the current state of the HN community.

I like that this place still primarily focuses on the message (even just the headline) rather than the messenger. Feels like an antifeature of the big social media platforms that who’s saying it is often more important than what’s being said.

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by COMMENT___ »

gordonhart wrote: post #188
COMMENT___ wrote: post #186

Oh, now HN is discussing a meaningless copy-pasted self promotion blog post. I guess this says something about the current state of the HN community.

I like that this place still primarily focuses on the message (even just the headline) rather than the messenger. Feels like an antifeature of the big social media platforms that who’s saying it is often more important than what’s being said.

Your point is quite good. I like it!

Re: Doing the thing is doing the thing

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Post by hadlock »

JonathanFly wrote: post #145
A_Venom_Roll wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I do agree with the content, this tone of writing feels awfully similar to LLM generated posts that flood some productivity subreddits recently. Are there really people who "spend weeks planning the perfect architecture" to build some automation tools for themselves? I don't buy that. Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This…

> While I do agree with the content, this tone of writing feels awfully similar to LLM generated posts > Commenter's history is full of 'red flags': - "The real cost of this complexity isn't the code itself - it's onboarding" - "This resonates." Wow it's obvious in the full comment history. What is the purpose for this stuff? Do social marketing services maintain armies of bot accounts that just build up credibility…

> Do social marketing services maintain armies of bot accounts that just build up credibility by doing normal-ish comments, so they can called on later like sleeper cells for marketing?

Russia and Israel are known to run full time operations doing this for well over a decade. Twitter by their own account, 25% of users are/were bots back in 2015 (their peak user year). Even here on HN if you go look at the most trafficked Israel/Palestine threads, there are lots of people complaining about getting modded into oblivion, turning the conversation into neutral/pro israel, and silencing negative comments via a ghost army of modders.

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