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that was me swyx

• rollulus 10mo ago
  Multiple people have coined the idea repeatedly, way before you. The oldest comment on HN I could find was in December 2022 by user spawarotti: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856172
  • threeducks 10mo ago
    Here is an even older comment chain about it from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23895706 Apparently, comparing low-background steel to pre-LLM text is a rather obvious analogy.
    • rollulus 10mo ago
      Oh wow, great find! That’s really early days.
    • pseidemann 10mo ago
      As well as that people often do think alike. If you have a thought, it's likely it's not new.
  • jeffchuber 10mo ago
    i didnt claim to invent it. i claimed swyx heard it through me - which he did
    • swyx 10mo ago
      you did!!