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Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by basscomm »

treesknees wrote: post #161
henrebotha wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey don't hate on us humans who genuinely do open random PRs to random projects to fix typos. https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Ahenrebotha+archi...

I’d love to know what your genuine motivation is. Is it a desire to genuinely improve projects? Because I’ve always had the impression that people who do this just want to boost their PR counts and GitHub activity numbers.

Not everyone is a developer. Finding and fixing typos benefits everyone and allows nontechnical people to participate in the projects to improve the software they use, even if they can't contribute code.

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Post by mwigdahl »

sevg wrote: post #72
chinathrow wrote: post #44

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The '—' gave it away. No one types this character on purpose.

Just because you don’t, doesn’t mean other people don’t. Plenty of real humans use emdash. You probably don’t realise that on some platforms it’s easy to type an emdash.

In Office apps on Windows just type two hyphens and then a word afterwards and it will autoconvert to an em-dash.

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by golemotron »

theoreticalmal wrote: post #193
pravj wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

I have never seen an AI meeting summary that was useful or sufficient in explaining what happened in the meeting. I have no idea what people use them for other than as a status signal

Why do people want to signal their low status?

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by alchemist1e9 »

throwup238 wrote: post #188
alchemist1e9 wrote: post #142

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I’m guessing this list is defined by Mac users who all got taught em dash somewhere similar or for similar reasons. It is only easy to use on a Mac. But I wonder what is the 2nd common influence of users using it?

Or, you know — iOS. That’s huge marketshare for a keyboard that automatically converts -- to —

That probably explains everything from a statistical perspective about this em dash topic. I didn’t know that — Thanks.

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Post by vdupras »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #35

What is the motivation behind posting such things? I understand if there is a bug bounty program, does cURL have one?

What if it was some kind of "meta DDoS"? I mean, you can DDoS a server with simple requests, but here the effect is meta: it "DoS"es real humans. What if someone had something to gain from doing this? The tools to do this seem to all be there.

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Post by dolmen »

chrismorgan wrote: post #197
Freak_NL wrote: post #166

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This is a misconception which keeps getting repeated. It's easy to use an em-dash on any modern Linux desktop as well (and in a lot of other places).

Though it does still require nominating a key to map to Compose. And is not generally meaningfully documented. So I’d only call it easy for the sorts of people that care enough to find it. But then, long before I had a Compose key, in my benighted days of using Windows, I figured out such codes as Alt+0151. 0150, 0151, 0153, 0169, 0176… a surprising number of them I still remember after not having typed them in a doz…

I miss the numeric keypad (gone on laptops) to be able to properly type my last name with its accentuated letter.

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Post by stn8188 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #197
Freak_NL wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a misconception which keeps getting repeated. It's easy to use an em-dash on any modern Linux desktop as well (and in a lot of other places).

Though it does still require nominating a key to map to Compose. And is not generally meaningfully documented. So I’d only call it easy for the sorts of people that care enough to find it. But then, long before I had a Compose key, in my benighted days of using Windows, I figured out such codes as Alt+0151. 0150, 0151, 0153, 0169, 0176… a surprising number of them I still remember after not having typed them in a doz…

In electrical engineering I'm still using a few alt codes daily, like 248 (degree sign), 234 (Omega), 230 (mu), and 241 (plus or minus). I'd love to add 0151 to the repertoire, but I don't want people to think I used AI to write stuff....

Re: You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here

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Post by zupa-hu »

sealeck wrote: post #189
hermannj314 wrote: post #165

Start charging users to submit a vulnerability report. It doesn't matter if it made by AI or a human, spammers operate by cheaply overproducing and externalizing their work onto you to validate their shit. And it works because sometimes they do deliver value by virtue of large numbers. But they are a net negative for society. Their model stops working if they have to pay for the time they wasted.

Even a deposit works well (and doesn't have to be large). Someone who has actually found a serious bug in cURL will probably pay $2-5 dollars as a deposit to report (especially given the high probability of a payout).

Exactly my thoughts.

I’d love to have this for phone calls and sms as well. If you didn’t spam me, I’ll refund.

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Post by stn8188 »

pravj wrote: post #180
Sharlin wrote: post #131

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Unfortunately that seems to be the norm now – people literally reduce themselves to a copy-paste mechanism.

This resonates a lot with some observations I drafted last week about "AI Slop" at the workplace. Overall, people are making a net-negative contribution by not having a sense of when to review/filter the responses generated by AI tools, because either (i) someone else is required to make that additional effort, or (ii) the problem is not solved properly. This sounds similar to a few patterns I noted - The average len…

I'm so annoyed this morning... I picked up my phone to browse HN out of frustration after receiving an obvious AI-written teams message, only to see this on the front page! I can't escape haha

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Post by duxup »

misnome wrote: post #6

I wonder where the balance of “Actual time saved for me” vs “Everyone else's time wasted” lies in this technological “revolution”.

Arguably that's been a part of coding for a long time ...

I spend a lot of time doing cleanup for a predecessor who took shortcuts.

Granted I'm agreeing, just saying the methods / volume maybe changed.

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