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Hi Felix! Simple suggestion: logo should be a cow and and orc to match how I originally read the product name.

MarsIronPI 9mo ago
Specifically, an orc riding a cow into battle with a pose similar to the viking(?) on the cover of Clojure for the Brave and True[0]! [0]: https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cover.png https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cov...
simonw 9mo ago
OK I couldn't resist that one: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb2ce https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb...
- plingamp 9mo ago
  Sorry not related - your blog is awesome. Cool to see you here on HN!
  - brazukadev 9mo ago
    I'm starting to suspect some of these comments might be AI generated and it is all an experiment. guy is the top comment in every other HN thread.
    - jamwil 9mo ago
      He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.
      - runarberg 9mo ago
        The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.
        Dilettante_ 9mo ago
        He very obviously disclosed that he had nano banana generate the logo. Using AI to boost himself is a different animal altogether. (The difference is lying)
        jamwil 9mo ago
        That’s not really reasonable to assume at all. Five minutes of research would give you a pretty strong indication of his character. The dude does not need to self-aggrandize; his reputation precedes.
        runarberg 9mo ago
        Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character. To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.
        simonw 9mo ago
        If you can draw a cow and an ork on top of an Anthropic logo with five minutes in Inkscape in a way that clearly captures this particular joke then my hat is off to you. I'm all in on LLMs for code and data extraction. I never use them to write text for my own comments on forums so social media or my various personal blogs - those represent my own opinions and need to be in my own words. I've recently started using them for some pieces of code documentation where there is little value to having a perspective or point of view. My use of image generation models is exclusively for jokes, and this was a really good joke.
    - fragmede 9mo ago
      This is the Internet. Everyone here is an AI running in a simulator like the Matrix. How do I know you're not an AI? How do you know I'm not? I could be! Please, just use an em—dash when responding to this comment let me know you're AI.
- oblio 9mo ago
  ENOPELICANS
- james_marks 9mo ago
  That is an unreasonably good interpretation
minikomi 9mo ago
i too could not resist https://g.co/gemini/share/6aa102571d75 https://g.co/gemini/share/6aa102571d75

Specifically, an orc riding a cow into battle with a pose similar to the viking(?) on the cover of Clojure for the Brave and True[0]! [0]: https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cover.png https://www.braveclojure.com/assets/images/home/png-book-cov...

simonw 9mo ago

OK I couldn't resist that one: https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb2ce https://gist.github.com/simonw/d06dec3d62dee28f2bd993eb78beb...

plingamp 9mo ago
Sorry not related - your blog is awesome. Cool to see you here on HN!
- brazukadev 9mo ago
  I'm starting to suspect some of these comments might be AI generated and it is all an experiment. guy is the top comment in every other HN thread.
  - jamwil 9mo ago
    He’s the top comment on every AI thread because he is a high profile developer (invented Django) and now runs arguably the most information rich blog that exists on the topic of LLMs.
    - runarberg 9mo ago
      The logo is AI generated... I think it is reasonable to assume so is many of the other things this account does.
      - Dilettante_ 9mo ago
        He very obviously disclosed that he had nano banana generate the logo. Using AI to boost himself is a different animal altogether. (The difference is lying)
      - jamwil 9mo ago
        That’s not really reasonable to assume at all. Five minutes of research would give you a pretty strong indication of his character. The dude does not need to self-aggrandize; his reputation precedes.
        runarberg 9mo ago
        Perhaps. But perhaps this era of AI slop leaves a foul taste in many people’s mouth. I don‘t know the reputation, all I see is somebody who felt the need to AI generate a picture and post it on HN. This is slop, and I personally get bad vibes from people who post AI generated slop, which leaves me with all sorts of assumptions about their character. To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.
        simonw 9mo ago
        If you can draw a cow and an ork on top of an Anthropic logo with five minutes in Inkscape in a way that clearly captures this particular joke then my hat is off to you. I'm all in on LLMs for code and data extraction. I never use them to write text for my own comments on forums so social media or my various personal blogs - those represent my own opinions and need to be in my own words. I've recently started using them for some pieces of code documentation where there is little value to having a perspective or point of view. My use of image generation models is exclusively for jokes, and this was a really good joke.
  - fragmede 9mo ago
    This is the Internet. Everyone here is an AI running in a simulator like the Matrix. How do I know you're not an AI? How do you know I'm not? I could be! Please, just use an em—dash when responding to this comment let me know you're AI.
oblio 9mo ago
ENOPELICANS
james_marks 9mo ago
That is an unreasonably good interpretation

minikomi 9mo ago

i too could not resist https://g.co/gemini/share/6aa102571d75 https://g.co/gemini/share/6aa102571d75