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by geraneum 3mo ago
> I get the threat of pervasive AI I think this contradicts with your first sentence.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Reduced worker protections -[somehow]-> better worker output. /s
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> There's something incredibly peaceful about being in the hands of an expert you trust. You don't have to worry anymore and can let them guide you through the process. AI can absolutely shatter that feeling in an uncomfortable
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> no one is going to want to stick to 30+ year old books This is... satire, right? right?
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by geraneum 4mo ago
That’s rather disingenuous. But it seems nowadays that words have lost meaning… so, I don’t blame you. I blame the LLMs for this deterioration.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Information is there to help steer people away from crazy conspiracy theories. The kind of information that help people even arrive at the questions you mentioned. That’s the whole point of my argument.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
I think a lack of curiosity and capacity also play a role in some believing the conspiracies. The information is there. More accessible than ever, yet most out of reach for our brains addicted to instant gratification of doom scrolls and ou
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Yeah this is a Mythos pitch.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> Founders who've never written a line of code before are shipping production applications, reaching revenue before scaling headcount Stats please
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by geraneum 4mo ago
I doubt people who need desperate help buy these books. Desperate help meaning if you can’t pay rent, medical bills, maintain a family, etc.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> 2025 was the first big drop, 2026 looks more severe, and the only thing that’s really changed in that timeframe is the acceleration of AI. It all hinges on this statement. But I’m not sure it’s really AI that’s doing it, and not just a
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> An LLM defaults to building when it should be buying. Not because it doesn’t know about existing libraries, it often mentions them, but because for an LLM, writing two hundred lines of implementation is the same cognitive effort as wri
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Ah yes we are being told to believe in sincerity of people running trillion dollar corporations.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
I hire an expensive office manager. Recently, the water dispenser tank ran dry. The employee immediately called a plumber. After laying entirely new pipes all the way to the dispenser, the plumber realized he couldn't actually hook the
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> watching Fable go to extreme lengths to get the information that it needed to debug what was, in the end, a two-line CSS fix, was fascinating. This is… ironic?!
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> spends 8 months working on a feature Are you sure those 8 months is not being spent on just “coding”? There’s design, product team input and iteration, etc. Where did you see that an A+ engineer goes into a cubicle and come X months af
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by geraneum 4mo ago
People underestimate the vastness of training data (internet) and overestimate their ability to recognize if something is really bespoke. Not to say the no problem solving is happening, because there are many problems that we inefficiently
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by geraneum 4mo ago
The point doesn’t seem to have been thought through.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
You can see this all over the place. Under the Fable post in HN, you have simonw talking about the “feel” of working with Fable and how much better it is. If I believed in conspiracies, I’d have said it’s all orchestrated marketing…
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> You probably don't care about the ingredients or engineering of asphalt Everyone does. You don’t think about it everyday because we’ve delegated it to experts which don’t come up with a new composition of Asphalt every time you pr
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> but it does demonstrate that a largely bifurcated consumption based economy can exist and can be mildly stable This is not the case. These countries don’t operate/exist in isolation. They are part of global economy. But if this te
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Corporations have done worse for much less money involved. Now we have trillion dollar companies going IPO. With so much at stake, it’s not unthinkable that there’s astroturfing happening.
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by geraneum 4mo ago
Care to share some sources that corroborate any of these claims and explains how the dots connect?
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> if a demographic group is more likely to apply to some jobs they are not qualified for Can you expand on this? How is a whole demographic group not qualified for jobs on wide spectrum? Is this about certain industries? Certain jobs? Ce
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> But the critics' accusation is also blunt: "Claude is making things worse." A blunt instrument is the fairest response. So the criticism was bad, and that somehow makes it ok to use a bad metric?
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> the cost of not deploying grows large enough that the risk-reward calculation tips heavily toward adoption Interesting framing! The cost for whom? Anthropic?
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by geraneum 4mo ago
> Expecting the model to do everything by itself is unrealistic Well that’s the pitch.
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by geraneum 5mo ago
Can you provide some concrete examples and sources?
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by geraneum 5mo ago
The individual self discipline is great but the “collective” in collective leverage is what makes all the difference.
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by geraneum 5mo ago
> domain experts driving LLMs are super powerful because they can spot where they make mistakes I don’t know if that’ll be true for long. I just had my colleague who’s a very competent engineer IMO hand me a frontier model vibed PR to re

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