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by madrox 6mo ago
This is probably the fairest counter argument I’ve heard. One can hope that today’s AI will eventually be as cheap as a calculator, though.
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by madrox 6mo ago
I think it's still possible, but to your point it is way harder. Not only that, but as a consumer I never know what is authentic.
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by madrox 6mo ago
Lots of social sites are facing this problem. It's nearly impossible to grow on Twitch without viewbotting: https://x.com/Reedjd/status/2028533060632010759 and Nikita is calling out Perplexity on X: https:&#
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by madrox 6mo ago
I hear you (see what I did there?) What makes this even more complicated is that multiple models use these terms. Does "high" effort mean the same thing in Claude and GPT?
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by madrox 6mo ago
> Opus 4.7 introduces a new xhigh (“extra high”) effort level I hope we standardize on what effort levels mean soon. Right now it has big Spinal Tap "this goes to 11" energy.
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by madrox 6mo ago
It’s the punchline at the very end of the article. They ended up with a different SaaS vendor.
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by madrox 6mo ago
That’s really exciting!
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by madrox 6mo ago
There is something uncanny about the bandwidth and quality of all the artifacts coming from this mission. I've subsisted on photos from the Apollo missions and artistic renditions for so long that seeing the modern, high resolution rea
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by madrox 6mo ago
> Obtuse and repetitive debates is what HN comments are for. :) Fair
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by madrox 6mo ago
This is a great point. I wish we started from this.
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by madrox 6mo ago
There's plenty of other comments saying this. It isn't that I don't understand, and need a clever metaphor. But to run with your metaphor, can we, maybe, just ignore the quacking since we all know that's just how you get
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by madrox 7mo ago
I'm getting so exhausted of the "slop" accusation on new project launches. There are legit criticisms of EmDash in the parent comment that are overshadowed by the implication it was AI coded and, thus, unusable quality. The p
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by madrox 7mo ago
This feels like a great example of a project that wouldn't exist if not for AI coding.
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by madrox 7mo ago
I am not Nick, but there's a few ways that world happens: the free tier goes away and what people pay for more correctly reflects what they use, this all becomes cheap enough that it doesn't matter, or we come up with an end to en
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by madrox 7mo ago
Ok, I'm following you. You're saying because labor gets cheaper it will be harder to make a living providing labor. Not disagreeing, but I wonder how much weight to give this argument. History shows a precedent of productivity rev
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by madrox 7mo ago
Fair, though I don’t see how AI is really changing the equation here
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by madrox 7mo ago
This is so disingenuous. You literally clipped the full sentence that changes the context significantly. > "Once I’ve proven to myself that rendering was feasible, I used Claude to create an approximate version of the game loop in J
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by madrox 7mo ago
I'm not sure if people will be more hosed than before. Historically, what makes people with capital able to turn things into more capital is its ability to buy someone's time and labor. Knowledge labor is becoming cheaper, easier,
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by madrox 7mo ago
> I've always said this but AI will win a fields medal before being able to manage a McDonald's. I love this and have a corollary saying: the last job to be automated will be QA. This wave of technology has triggered more discu
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by madrox 7mo ago
I don't think the issue at hand is a technical challenge. It's merely a sign, imo, that usage has surged due to AI. To your point, this is a solvable scaling problem. My worry is for the business and how they structure pricing. Gi
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by madrox 7mo ago
I think you're directionally correct, but this stuff still has to live somewhere, whether the repo is code or prompts. GitHub is actually pretty well-positioned to evolve into whatever is next. I don't think GitHub's product
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by madrox 7mo ago
Already enough comments about base rate fallacy, so instead I'll say I'm worried for the future of GitHub. Its business is underpinned by pre-AI assumptions about usage that, based on its recent instability, I suspect is being inv
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by madrox 7mo ago
This feels like the only sane response. It's undoubtedly a useful idea for the mechanic. How it performs and if it can improve remains to be seen. This is such a rorschach test for AI pessimism and optimism.
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by madrox 7mo ago
Is there something you don't like about the substance of my comments? Or is this just name calling? Is this not Hacker News? Aren't AI dev stacks supposed to be interesting to developers? Say what you want about my comments, but a
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by madrox 7mo ago
I've been using gstack for the last few days, and will probably keep it in my skill toolkit. There's a lot of things I like. It maps closely to skills I've made for myself. First, I appreciate how he implemented auto-update.
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by madrox 7mo ago
I agree. I think it's interesting that, even if AI handles the conversation effectively, we're still repulsed. I'm curious what will happen once AI generated text gets good enough that people can't tell the difference. W
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by madrox 7mo ago
I agree with you. No one wants this. But the internet has had slop long before AI. It's in the same class as clickbait. AI just made it worse and given the slop a distinct flavor. You can be furious about this if you want, but to me th
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by madrox 7mo ago
It's been pretty amusing seeing the total upvotes for my comment go up and down. I wasn't expecting it to be so controversial. Reading and responding to many of the replies, I think many people are strawmanning me as being in supp
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by madrox 7mo ago
You're reading too much into my words if you think I'm suggesting we should take it in stride. I think we should accept that trying to enforce social norms is a waste of time as that will only work on the politest part of the inte
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by madrox 7mo ago
I absolutely agree with this. We did not tell bot operators to "do better" like this manifesto is trying to do, which is my whole point.

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