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by DrewADesign 25d ago
> As if generative AI needed more publicity for its “we are literally just making stuff up” approach to getting stuff done. To be fair, there are technical considerations. Like, technically, nobody in charge of these companies gives a
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by DrewADesign 25d ago
In my experience, there’s no better way to learn more complex programming techniques or tools than running into a brick wall with the simple tools you’re familiar with, spending a ton of time on an unreasonably irritating solution, only to
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by DrewADesign 26d ago
> I think a lot of HN commenters are way too disconnected from the average person This is basically an old-man-and-the-starfish situation for me. > You're making a big assumption that a user will even connect the dots If they do,
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by DrewADesign 27d ago
Sorry, no. Explaining why someone would have taken them at their word is definitely not stupider than blaming people who could have been lied to for trusting a company that lied to them.
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by DrewADesign 27d ago
Personally, I wouldn’t assume it was lying. To me, dark patterns (like manipulative wording) imply that: 1) someone in a governing body, or someone in the organization, e.g a designer, ethicist, lawyer, developer, etc. has successfully argu
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by DrewADesign 28d ago
Ok
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by DrewADesign 28d ago
I mean it sounds like a retroactively contrived explanation of events. If they released a statement on it, they clearly feel the need to give an explanation of their behavior. People criticize OpenAI every day and they rarely address it. Th
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by DrewADesign 28d ago
I don’t have a dog in this fight, but it sounds a bit “I was just punching the air— it’s not my fault someone was in the way.” It’s not like it’s impossible, but it doesn’t immediately pass my smell test. I’ll wait until someone close enoug
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
The idea is that if I have $200,000 to give to a charity and I give $200,000, my $200,000 yields $200,000 for the charity. If I say I’m going to match other people’s money 2:1 and that convinces people donate $90,000, my $180,000 yields $27
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
And while these sponsorship shenanigans are the tech business’s bread and butter, sponsored answer manipulation seems fundamentally more insidious. Even in a larger-scale measurement like this one, there’s no way to tell if any of that is s
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Judging from the handful of B school professors I’ve interacted with, I’d be surprised if they didn’t. Judging from the many HBS students I’ve interacted with, the takeaway seems to be judiciously avoiding treating people fairly.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
In the tech industry of yore, corporations having tech ecosystem stewardship duties was a quaint necessary evil to placate the developer crowd so you could hire them. Today, c-suites consider that indulgent soft-hearted hippie nonsense utte
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
You could make the monetary motivation argument against anyone involved— much moreso Altman, et. al. What specifically about the criticism do you find stupid? That’s a very general dismissal of some pretty specific criticism.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
> Why is that the most likely outcome? Listen, very smart people are very enthusiastic about other very smart people using AI to help AI learn to fix AI. Pretty much open-and-shut, IMO.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Speaking of “I use arch btw”
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Do you know anyone whose understanding of the LLM business has remained static for the past 10 months? Would it be a positive trait?
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
No, the cornerstones of his thesis are: - LLM’s potential and capability are dramatically overstated - Business leaders are either driven by the Emperor’s New Clothes effect, or the legitimate fear of stock price or valuation drops, to admi
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Maybe librewolf, but Waterfox is a drop-in replacement. Same extension “store”, gets updates quickly, install on every OS I’ve tried (which is usually windows unfortunately) is equally as smooth as Firefox, compatible profiles, etc, etc, et
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
I use Waterfox or Librewolf
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Sure, but Firefox doesn’t have to be Chrome to be unacceptable, and Chrome isn’t the only alternative. I reject the idea that Firefox can transgress as much as they want as long as Chrome has gotten worse. And fuck then for buying and killi
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
> The OpenAI-HuggingFace incident showed a bunch of instances of the same model (or at least models from the same family), controlled by the same vendor, pursuing distinct yet related objectives, cooperating to do something no human want
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
The common denominator is cargo cultism. AI coding is really just trying to make cargo cult coding sustainable.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Not necessarily. Interface design is a communication medium. A skilled designer can often communicate to multiple types of users solving different types of problems. When an interface is “dumbed down,” it’s usually because a non-designer wa
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
It’s funny. The only people that regularly, seriously discuss skeuomorphism in software design are software developers. It was a big conversational topic among designers around the time Apple ditched the faux leather padding at the top of t
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
The thing is that good interface design is basically invisible, so most people, developers notwithstanding, take it for granted. In the late 90s, there were entire books published on using popular email clients like Eudora, but a literal ch
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Well, software doesn’t exist for its own sake, the sake of the people that made it, or the sake of some kind of exclusive smartypants club. The purpose is to solve problems or accomplish tasks for people— some of whom are not cognitively gi
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
Because it’s not even twice as long as what you wrote? If you’re dead set on not knowing something, I can’t stop you. PEBKAC.
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
A developer sees an application as a toolkit to help them solve a problem. The more flexibility and power, the better it is. They’ve become comfortable with complex tools on the computer, over the years, because they enjoy learning about an
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
> a common way for regular people to interact with a system is they just... don't have a model. None at all. Like, they click a thing and see what it does, and if it doesn't do what they expect they shrug and click something e
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by DrewADesign 1mo ago
You’re right. I didn’t really dig into huggingface specifically even though they’re obviously different from the examples I used in my mental model. I’m not going to say I’m wrong because I haven’t personally looked into it, and regardless

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