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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 craftkiller »

renewiltord wrote: post #361
craftkiller wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are spelling correction PRs not welcome? I'd never put it on a résumé but if I'm following a README and I see a typo, I'll generally open a quick PR to fix that. (no automated tools, not scanning for typos, just a human reading a README).

> Before LLMs were a thing I also received worthless spelling-incorrection pull requests with the same aim. I always find it a pity when someone has been clever and it's missed. "Spelling incorrection ", get it? It's not a correction. It's the opposite.

Ah, you're right, I totally missed that! But tbh that makes less sense to me. If this was pre-LLM then this is suggesting that humans were opening pull requests that change correctly-spelled words to incorrectly-spelled words? Is that some weird attempt at steganography?

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

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Post by navane »

chillfox wrote: post #283
navane wrote: post #162

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I was looking through my work email (my personal email is already too far gone) and realized 90pct of the messages were computer generated. Maybe not AI, but still all automatic process fired messages. I was looking for emails that were deliberately drafted by a human, not even sent only to me. Just messages that a human intentionaly made in the moment. Can't filter them out.

Pretty sure it's above 99% for me. Email is just a waste of time and a way to get phished these days.

But this is my work mail. There's no "spam" in it, just endless SharePoint and Teams notifications and useless Corp mails.

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

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Post by natebc »

JackFr wrote: post #313
AJ007 wrote: post #308

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This is the bull case for AI, as with any significant advance in technology eventually you have no choice but to use it. In this case, the only way to filter through large volumes of AI output is going to be with other LLM models. The exponential growth of compute and data continues.. As a side note, if anyone I'm communicating with - personally or in business - sends responses that sound like they were written by Ch…

> As a side note, if anyone I'm communicating with - personally or in business - sends responses that sound like they were written by ChatGPT 3.5, 4o, GPT-5-low, etc, I don't take anything they write seriously anymore. What if they are a very limited English speaker, using the AI to tighten up their responses into grammatical, idiomatic English?

I'd rather have words from a humans mind full stop.

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

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Post by jonplackett »

dansmith1919 wrote: post #10

Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…

Do you think it’s a person doing it? When I saw that reply I though maybe it’s a bot doing the whole thing!

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

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Post by tantivy »

elzbardico wrote: post #230
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #34

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Is it that crazy? He's doing exactly what the AI boosters have told him to do. Like, do LLMs have actual applications? Yes. By virtue of using one, are you by definition a lazy know-nothing? No. Are they seemingly quite purpose-built for lazy know-nothings to help them bullshit through technical roles? Yeah, kinda. In my mind this is this tech working exactly as intended. From the beginning the various companies have…

I have a long-running interest in NLP, LLMs basically solved or almost solved a lot of NLP problems. The usefulness of LLMs for me, in the end, is their ability to execute classic NLP tasks, so I can incorporate a call for them in programs to do useful stuff that would be hard to do otherwise when dealing with natural language. But, a lot of times, people try to make LLMs do things that they can only simulate doing,…

I once tasked an LLM with correcting a badly-OCR'd text, and it went beast mode on that. Like setting an animal finally free in its habitat. But that kind of work won't propel a stock valuation :(

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

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Post by renewiltord »

craftkiller wrote: post #401
renewiltord wrote: post #361

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Before LLMs were a thing I also received worthless spelling-incorrection pull requests with the same aim. I always find it a pity when someone has been clever and it's missed. "Spelling incorrection ", get it? It's not a correction. It's the opposite.

Ah, you're right, I totally missed that! But tbh that makes less sense to me. If this was pre-LLM then this is suggesting that humans were opening pull requests that change correctly-spelled words to incorrectly-spelled words? Is that some weird attempt at steganography?

Nope, just a large number of people who don't know English. As an example in context, someone might run a spell check and decide "incorrection" is an error, removing the humor.

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

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Post by seattle_spring »

jbd0 wrote: post #340
treesknees wrote: post #161

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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.

> PR counts and GitHub activity numbers. This used to mean something, but I don't think it does anymore.

I still see a disturbing amount of people claim it does matter a whole lot to them on LinkedIn. Hell, Sam Altman himself made a big deal about someone he knows "committing 100k lines of code per day with AI," as if that code was anything other than complete garbage.

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

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Post by shepherdjerred »

donohoe wrote: post #177
rpigab wrote: post #13

"I heard you were extremely quick at math" Me: "yes, as a matter of fact I am" Interviewer: "Whats 14x27" Me: "49" Interviewer: "that's not even close" me: "yeah, but it was fast"

function getRandomNumber() { return 4 }

It’s better with the comment

https://xkcd.com/221/

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

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Post by GuinansEyebrows »

deadbabe wrote: post #182
akk0 wrote: post #45

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You do realize English is one of India's two official languages, I hope?

Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers.

> Yea but you can always tell it’s an Indian because they write differently from actual English speakers.

to what end do you employ this analysis?

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

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Post by f4stjack »

Sharlin wrote: post #131
dansmith1919 wrote: post #10

Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply: > Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproduc…

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

To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew the policies & operations and had good relations with users and coworkers.

The interview went well. I was honest. When asked what my weakness regarding this position I told that I am a good analyst but when it comes to writing new exploits, that's beyond my expertise. The role doesn't have this as a requirement so I thought it was a good answer.

I was not selected. Instead they selected a guy and then booted him off after 2 months due to his excessive (and non-correct like the link) use of LLM and did not open the position again.

So in addition to wasting the hirers' time those nice people block other people's progress as well. But, as long as the hirers expect wunderkinds crawling out of the woods the applicants try to fake it and win in the short term.

This needs to end but I don't see any progress towards it. This is especially painful as I am seeking a job at the moment and thinking these fakers are muddying the waters. It feels like no one cares about your attitude - like how geniunely you want to work. I am an old techie and the world I was in valued this rather than technical aptitude for you can teach/learn technical information but character is another thing. This gets lost in our brave new cyberpunk without the cool gadgets era I believe.

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