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Re: Warranty Void If Regenerated

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Post by donatj »

I'm trying to sort out my own emotions on this.

I did not realize this was AI generated while reading it until I came to the comments here... And I feel genuinely had? Like "oh wow, you got me"... I don't like this feeling.

It's certainly the longest thing (I know about) I've taken the time to read that was AI generated. The writing struck me as genuinely good, like something out of The New Yorker. I found the story really enjoyable.

I talked to AI basically all day, yet I am genuinely made uneasy by this.

Re: Warranty Void If Regenerated

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Post by furyofantares »

I guess I'm an expert on LLM-isms somehow, I thought they were still plentiful. They're plentiful at the start but get significantly worse near the end, so I'm guessing you spent more time polishing up the first 2/3rds or so.

But I was able to get through the text, it's pretty good, you did great work cleaning it up. There's just a bit more to do to my taste.

The story is good.

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Post by FarmerPotato »

Stwerner wrote: post #31
dazzaji wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m pleasantly surprised this was AI assisted so deeply that inconsistencies like that slipped by you. The writing is really extraordinary. It made me want to read for fun again for the first time in decades. Thank you!

Funny, I was talking to a friend the other day about some thoughts on branding and he commented "as someone with a background in marketing & advertising communications, it's wild to watch a software engineer learn the value of branding and marketing from first principles". I guess I'm also learning the value of working with an editor from first principles... over the last couple weeks before publishing I read through…

> from first principles

I don't think that phrase means what you are trying to say here.

What it doesn't mean: - learning by doing

I believe it generally means: a formalization that comes after a subject is understood so well that you can reduce it to "first principles" that imply the rest. Or, the production of a hypothesis by deduction from widely-accepted principles.

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Post by selimthegrim »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #51
helle253 wrote: post #34

that's funny, i know where this story is set (i grew up there) - or at least, the place Claude was basing things off of some inconsistencies that stuck out/i found interesting: - HWY 29 doesnt run through marshfield, its about 15 miles north. - not a lot of people grow cabbage in central wisconsin ;) - no corrugated sheet metal buildings like in the first image around there - i dont think theres a county road K near…

I think it serves even better as a metaphor for software engineering's future than as a forecast for the future of farming. As you suggest, farmers already had to make the "transition" over the course of the 20th century. A farmer from 1926 wouldn't recognize his counterpart today. They would have nothing to talk about. Software people, though, are still twentieth-century programmers at heart, who are just starting t…

> As you suggest, farmers already had to make the "transition" over the course of the 20th century. A farmer from 1926 wouldn't recognize his counterpart today. They would have nothing to talk about.

Can you elaborate on this?

Re: Warranty Void If Regenerated

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Post by cluckindan »

nativeit wrote: post #58

> The milk pricing tool consumed the feed tool’s output as one of its cost inputs. The format change hadn’t broken the connection — the data still flowed — but it had caused the pricing tool to misparse one field, reading a per-head cost as a per-hundredweight cost, which made the feed expenses look much higher than they were, which made the margin calculations come out lower, which made the recommended prices drop.…

The entire story is AI slop. Tasty and enjoyable slop, but slop nonetheless.

Re: Warranty Void If Regenerated

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Post by cluckindan »

Syntonicles wrote: post #23
Stwerner wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha well it was me and Claude ;)

I wonder if it was de-indexed from HN for this reason. 30 minutes ago it was on the front-page, now I can't find it listed in the top 200.

And now it’s #1 on the front page.
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