It is profoundly ironic that this article is AI generated.
Seriously. Very Claude-y vibes from this post. I guess the value of human effort doesn’t extend to writing your own blog posts
Taste in the age of AI and LLMs
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh I agree with you, I'm just saying a lot of developers don't want to use it like that. AI has liberated them from the drudgery of reading and writing code and they won't accept that they should still be doing a bit of both, if not a lot of reading.
It does amaze me when colleagues refuse to read what I (personally, deliberately) wrote (they ask AI to summarize), but then tell AI to write their response and it's absolutely bloated and full of misconceptions around my original document. If they aren't willing to read what I put effort into, why should I be expected to read the ill-conceived and verbose response? I really don't want to get into a match of my AI ar…
Ya, I can't stand that. Asking a question and being hit with "this is what claude said" gives me a new kind of rage.
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#94It has been for a while. Hollywood and other outlets didn’t need AI tools to create abysmal slop.
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#95It is profoundly ironic that this article is AI generated.
He has taste. The LLM knows that and creates a tasteful article. /s
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#96https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46 evergreen.
Is the joke that the guy is drinking bad coffee?
The joke is that all of the engineers that came before AI were also just following established patterns, right down to everyone wearing the same outfit to work despite our tech workplaces usually being very business casual. Implication that taste was not something these engineers had either.
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#97IMO, taste has always been one of the strongest moats because we struggle to define what good taste even is. We know it when we see it, but other than pointing to examples, we can’t really describe it in general terms. I still remember a line from Paul Graham’s Hackers and Painters where he was describing the difficulty of hiring software engineers. He says he was talking with a colleague after an interview and remarked (I’m paraphrasing), “I know he can write code. But does he have taste?” Taste is something we all want our colleagues and products and services to have, but defining it is really difficult. And yes, I fully agree with the writer that it’s important more than ever in this age of AI where generation is cheap.
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#98https://x.com/netcapgirl/status/2024140332963705342?s=46 evergreen.
Is the joke that the guy is drinking bad coffee?
The joke is that the person "saying" this is wearing their "I'm a rational, independent thinker!" tech uniform (expensive Nordic outdoors wear, so practical, so smart, so active, Vimes' boot theory, et c, not like those clowns in business wear, I'm interested in practicality not signaling, that's why I'm spending so much money signaling so hard about how rational I am).
They are visibly displaying a complete lack of personal taste, instead wearing the SV equivalent of an outdated-cut, off-the-rack navy blue (or even black, LOL) business suit.
The joke is that the message "good taste is what matters now" is being delivered by someone apparently, in a specifically SV sort of way, with a deficit of good taste.
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#99Extremely ironic piece of slop.
It's getting bad here; I've seen at least three obviously AI-written "anti-AI" or "AI critical" pieces hit and remain on the front page in the last week. I can't help but think about Bill Hicks on marketing: "Everyone here who’s in marketing is now thinkin' the same thing: 'Oh, cool. Bill's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a huge market.'"
The rest of that is also still gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
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#100Article assumed as absolute truth, without explanation, that competent systems can be effortlessly implemented.
If one disagrees with that's statement, there is nothing of value to extract from this article.
Words are cheap, bullet point are cheap.