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Read enough of EGreg’s posts and you’ll immediately recognize that this site is definitely his but at least LLMs stopped him posting about qbix all the time, a

Read enough of EGreg’s posts and you’ll immediately recognize that this site is definitely his but at least LLMs stopped him posting about qbix all the time, a sweet mercy

EGreg 3mo ago
I’m flattered that you followed my posts long enough to have an opinion on all this and even can recognize if a site is “definitely mine”. Question though — what do you have against what I’m saying or working hard towards? Trying to create healthier versions of technologies and help people? https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/ https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/
- reticulates 3mo ago
  go back through all of your comments from the last decade, group them by comments that promote/mention one of your projects and comments that do not. I’d ballpark 95% of your comments have been self-aggrandizing self-promotion, it is exhausting to read. I guess today was the day I said something when I saw someone else suffering through another one of your comments. You might want to create healthier technology but you have contributed nothing to HN in almost 20 years, almost impressive enough to be an achievement unto itself. I’d eat my hat if I could find a substantive comment you’ve ever written that wasn’t self-promotion.
  - EGreg 3mo ago
    No you won’t. You won’t eat your hat — but I’ve written quite a few substantive comments on quite a few subjects that didn’t have to do with self-promotion. The difference is that those comments actually contributed LESS to HN, because they involved random arguments that were ultimately forgotten. Excuse me, for actually trying to build things instead of just bitching and then let people on HN know about them, or posting things that I believe in. According to you, I guess I should have spent more % of my posts being snarky and attacking things others have built, like our friend here. I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source. If you don’t want to click or use it or even look at it, that says more about you than me.
    - reticulates 3mo ago
      And yet your next comment after this was, once again, self promotion, proving my point. Safebots isn’t a contribution. You have just reinvented tools but bundled it with thousands of words of AI generated slop and terrible AI generated “ideas”. Everyone with Grok invents a new “computing substrate”. Yes, “substrate” is such a Grokism that I can immediately identify you use Grok for “thinking”. If you spent just a little more time reading and a little less time self-promoting you would know that you are 12 months behind everyone else, human in the loop approval flows for tool execution are standard. The examples of LLMs doing destructive things are because users provided blanket approval. https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#tool-execution-approval https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#t... “I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source.” Code that nobody has ever used. HN is a discussion forum, you haven’t contributed to discussion. You have always been a slop merchant, quite impressive that you were slopping before LLMs, maybe you are an internet innovator after all.
      - EGreg 3mo ago
        Wrong again. I didn’t use Grok, and I hardly use Elon’s AI models for anything LOL Also, sadly, your common predilection on HN to ridicule and scorn everything is biasing you against the most important set of solutions in AI. It ain’t about making the models safer - more aligned - or refusals. For what it’s worth I’ll try to share one more article with you, but I doubt you’ll get it: https://safebots.ai/about https://safebots.ai/about So you’d have me engage in “discussion” by which you mean criticizing work others do. Sorry to disappoint you by ACTUALLY building working solutions to actual problems, instead of just bitching 24/7. Must make you really aggravated to have to hear about that. Yes, I have been working on free software for a decade before LLMs. And giving it away for free. Ooh, I’m such a moocher on your time! You’re always free to scroll past and continue “contributing” the next 10 years of snarky comments. Maybe you can even speed it up with LLMs — I am sure it will greatly improve people’s lives :)
        reticulates 3mo ago
Terr_ 3mo ago
Huh, if that site is indeed theirs, that means they are now accusing strangers (me) of fabricating quotes from their own pitch-deck! That raises some interesting questions about the creation process. I like to believe that authors should recognize their own works.

Read enough of EGreg’s posts and you’ll immediately recognize that this site is definitely his but at least LLMs stopped him posting about qbix all the time, a sweet mercy

EGreg 3mo ago

I’m flattered that you followed my posts long enough to have an opinion on all this and even can recognize if a site is “definitely mine”. Question though — what do you have against what I’m saying or working hard towards? Trying to create healthier versions of technologies and help people? https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/ https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

reticulates 3mo ago
go back through all of your comments from the last decade, group them by comments that promote/mention one of your projects and comments that do not. I’d ballpark 95% of your comments have been self-aggrandizing self-promotion, it is exhausting to read. I guess today was the day I said something when I saw someone else suffering through another one of your comments. You might want to create healthier technology but you have contributed nothing to HN in almost 20 years, almost impressive enough to be an achievement unto itself. I’d eat my hat if I could find a substantive comment you’ve ever written that wasn’t self-promotion.
- EGreg 3mo ago
  No you won’t. You won’t eat your hat — but I’ve written quite a few substantive comments on quite a few subjects that didn’t have to do with self-promotion. The difference is that those comments actually contributed LESS to HN, because they involved random arguments that were ultimately forgotten. Excuse me, for actually trying to build things instead of just bitching and then let people on HN know about them, or posting things that I believe in. According to you, I guess I should have spent more % of my posts being snarky and attacking things others have built, like our friend here. I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source. If you don’t want to click or use it or even look at it, that says more about you than me.
  - reticulates 3mo ago
    And yet your next comment after this was, once again, self promotion, proving my point. Safebots isn’t a contribution. You have just reinvented tools but bundled it with thousands of words of AI generated slop and terrible AI generated “ideas”. Everyone with Grok invents a new “computing substrate”. Yes, “substrate” is such a Grokism that I can immediately identify you use Grok for “thinking”. If you spent just a little more time reading and a little less time self-promoting you would know that you are 12 months behind everyone else, human in the loop approval flows for tool execution are standard. The examples of LLMs doing destructive things are because users provided blanket approval. https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#tool-execution-approval https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#t... “I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source.” Code that nobody has ever used. HN is a discussion forum, you haven’t contributed to discussion. You have always been a slop merchant, quite impressive that you were slopping before LLMs, maybe you are an internet innovator after all.
    - EGreg 3mo ago
      Wrong again. I didn’t use Grok, and I hardly use Elon’s AI models for anything LOL Also, sadly, your common predilection on HN to ridicule and scorn everything is biasing you against the most important set of solutions in AI. It ain’t about making the models safer - more aligned - or refusals. For what it’s worth I’ll try to share one more article with you, but I doubt you’ll get it: https://safebots.ai/about https://safebots.ai/about So you’d have me engage in “discussion” by which you mean criticizing work others do. Sorry to disappoint you by ACTUALLY building working solutions to actual problems, instead of just bitching 24/7. Must make you really aggravated to have to hear about that. Yes, I have been working on free software for a decade before LLMs. And giving it away for free. Ooh, I’m such a moocher on your time! You’re always free to scroll past and continue “contributing” the next 10 years of snarky comments. Maybe you can even speed it up with LLMs — I am sure it will greatly improve people’s lives :)
      - reticulates 3mo ago

Terr_ 3mo ago

Huh, if that site is indeed theirs, that means they are now accusing strangers (me) of fabricating quotes from their own pitch-deck! That raises some interesting questions about the creation process. I like to believe that authors should recognize their own works.