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I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by andy99 »

w4yai wrote: post #21
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years. At least, AI images feel more on point.

It’s an indicator of extremely low effort. I don’t think fundamentally it’s people not liking the picture, or liking it less than a stock picture (even if the all look the same) it’s just a tell that someone is being super lazy. Same as people don’t like seeing AI posts on forums like HN. It’s less a judgement about the content of the post and more about the way the poster is interacting. Everyone can use AI themselves if they wanted to see throwaway AI output so it feels condescending when it’s presented to us.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by derekp7 »

laristine wrote: post #23
w4yai wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years. At least, AI images feel more on point.

Maybe because OP likes images that were actually taken and stock images are fine that way. Different people can have different preferences.

My problem with stock photos is that unless it is clearly a stock image, it can mislead. For example, when looking up information on the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House, the article had a stock photo of a modern photo-voltaic panel. So I was initially confused, as what was described was a solar collector that concentrates the sun's heat to provide hot water for the kitchen. Which makes a lot more sense of why it wasn't re-installed during some roof renovations under Regan (the initial purpose of it was more to inspire the nation, that wouldn't be served much by re-installing it after it had been removed for roof work as the original moment had passed).

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by gyomu »

w4yai wrote: post #21
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years. At least, AI images feel more on point.

They're both pointless filler, but because stock photos are from the real world, they don't suffer from "detail collapse" - sure, there's not much meaning to be found, but the detail stays coherent as you keep looking at them for longer so your brain quickly realizes they can be safely skimmed.

Your visual system looks for detail, it's consistent with your world model but empty of meaning, it doesn't trigger your attention network, you can ignore it and keep going.

AI images do suffer from detail collapse - the longer you look at them, the less sense it makes. Look at the image in the linked post - the sculpture makes no sense, the code inscribed on it looks like real code - oh wait no it's not, the characters quickly blur into garbled scratches, and oh ? there's a smaller block of even more "meaningless" code nested into the first?

Your visual system looks for detail, it's inconsistent with your world model, so it triggers your attention network in search of the meaning behind it (things that are not consistent with our internal world model are of utmost importance to our attention), but there's none to be found. You've just wasted mental cycles on slop, whether you consciously realize it or not.

In either case shitty MSPaint drawings would be much better as they would express personality, and there'd only be the level of detail that their author judges useful, but that would require actual effort.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by bitwize »

w4yai wrote: post #21
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years. At least, AI images feel more on point.

AI images tend to have uncanny-valley details about them that make your brain go "brotha, eugh!" in a very subtle way, perhaps just below the threshold of conscious awareness. Stock photography is not nearly so unsettling, so your brain just skims over it.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by AstroBen »

derekp7 wrote: post #20
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

Honest question. For the purpose of adding a throw-away visual to help set the tone of an article, is there really any difference between shitty AI slop vs shitty Photoshop slop? Either way it is obvious that this isn't a real studio photo, and that wouldn't be expected. I guess the better (or more traditional) article picture would be a hand illustrated piece that an in-house artist would throw together in maybe an…

I think you're better off with no image if the only option is slop. It detracts from the content

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by alexwennerberg »

w4yai wrote: post #21
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ? They've equally filled the web and articles for the last years. At least, AI images feel more on point.

> Why are you sick of AI images, but you're not about stock images ?

Both are bad. Just use text.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by 7777332215 »

shiveenp wrote: post #16

I don’t understand the kind of mentality that takes to put out genuine slop like this. Use the LLM or the agents or the fancy way to call a markdown file a skill to do your job; but stop pretending that it makes you in any way exceptional. The whole post says nothing, seems AI generated itself and on top of that, adds nothing of value - simply exists to increase the entropy in the world.

People who were very bad 0.01x devs (or not devs at all) that now feel competent because they can produce something when previously they could produce nothing.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by furyofantares »

alexwennerberg wrote: post #34
xyzsparetimexyz wrote: post #7

Why is it that AI glazing blog posts like this inevitably use a shitty AI generated image? I am absolutely sick to bits of seeing them

The text reads suspiciously like AI too. I don't X -- I Y. Short paragraphs, lots of em-dashes.

It does look like it passed through an LLM, but you're wrong about em-dashes. There are no em-dashes in it, just hyphens.

Re: I don't write code anymore – I sculpt it

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Post by AstroBen »

teekert wrote: post #15

I know the feeling. I still wonder though, am I faster? Do I understand what I’ve made as well as I used to? What have I learned? How did the experience benefit me? What value did I gain? Idk. Hoping there will be research soon.

Do your own n=1 research! Unfortunately the only companies that would fund this would be AI labs. They aren't going to report that it sucks

One cool way I saw someone do it was to estimate a task and then randomize whether they'd use AI or hand code it

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