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Pro tip (sorry if these comments are overdone), write your posts and docs yourself (or at least edit them). Your docs and this post is all written by an LLM, w
by ramon156 9mo ago
Pro tip (sorry if these comments are overdone), write your posts and docs yourself (or at least edit them).
Your docs and this post is all written by an LLM, which doesn't reflect much effort.
- bakugo 9mo ago> which doesn't reflect much effort. I wish this was an effective deterrent against posting low effort slop, but it isn't. Vibe coders are actively proud of the fact that they don't put any effort into the things they claim to have created.
- problynought 9mo ago[flagged]
- 0_____0 9mo agoEE with decades of experience here. You have valid points (SWE tedium, LLMs allowing adjacent technical fields to access SW/FW work without involving SWEs) that are completely lost because you're being an asshole for no good reason.
- y4wn0KMurica 9mo agoAwwww... A look at OPs post-history, projecting back low-effort meta-analysis of their own uselessness seems apt.
- g0h0m3 9mo agoGithub repo that is nothing but forks of others projects and some 4chan utilities. Professional codependent leveraging anonymity to target others. The internet is a mediocrity factory.
- cyanydeez 9mo agoMediocrity is in charge of the largest military atm
- IhateAI_6 9mo agoThe masses yearn for slop.
- Szpadel 9mo agocounterargument: I always hated writing docs and therefore most of thing that I done at my day job didn't had any and it made using it more difficult for others. I was also burnt many times where some software docs said one thing and after many hours of debugging I found out that code does something different. LLMs are so good at creating decent descriptions and keeping them up to date that I believe docs are the number one thing to use them for. yes, you can tell human didn't write them, so what? if they are correct I see no issue at all.
- DonaldPShimoda 9mo ago> if they are correct I see no issue at all. Indeed. Are you verifying that they are correct, or are you glancing at the output and seeing something that seems plausible enough and then not really scrutinizing? Because the latter is how LLMs often propagate errors: through humans choosing to trust the fancy predictive text engine, abdicating their own responsibility in the process. As a consumer of an API, I would much rather have static types and nothing else than incorrect LLM-generated prosaic documentation.
- jack_pp 9mo agoCan you provide examples in the wild of LLMs creating bad descriptions of code? Has it ever happened to you? Somehow I doubt at this point in time they can even fail at something so simple. Like at some point, for some stuff we have to trust LLMs to be correct 99% of the time. I believe summaries, translate, code docs are in that category
- halfcat 9mo ago> Can you provide examples in the wild of LLMs creating bad descriptions of code? Has it ever happened to you? Yes. Docs it produces are generally very generic, like it could be the docs for anything, with project-specifics sprinkled in, and pieces that are definitely incorrect about how the code works. > for some stuff we have to trust LLMs to be correct 99% of the time No. We don’t.
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- IhateAI_6 9mo agoPeople have already fried that part of their brain, the idea of writing more than a couple sentences is out of the question to many now. These plagiarism laundering machines are giving people a brain disease that we haven't even named yet.
- SeanAnderson 9mo agoOh cmon, at least try to signal like you're interested in a good-faith debate by posting with your main account. Intentionally ignoring the rules of HN only ensures nobody will get closer to your belief system.
- fullstackchris 9mo agoI mean his rage is somewhat warranted, there is a comment a few threads up of a guy asking what model comparable to Opus 4.6 can be run on 16 gb VRAM... Supporters and haters alike, its getting pretty stupid out there. For the millionth time, it seems learning basics and fundamentals of software engineering is more important than anything else.
- p0u4a 9mo agopost-ai-laziness-disorder (PALD)
- Muhammad523 9mo agoI agree. Also at some point, writing your own docs becomes funny (or at least for me)