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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Who on the face of the earth doesn’t know this? Scroll through the comments and if you find one person who is like “oh shit really?? I had no idea!” Then you’re hallucinating. This page isn’t designed to be informative it’s designed as self
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Those are skills those are some guidelines that once people follow it most people can do it. Nowhere did I say we needed to point in a general direction and let it go.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
It’s not bizarre. Hallucination is just another word for invention, the same cognitive move that produces fiction. In one context that’s failure, in another it’s success. Calling that bizarre is like calling imagination itself an error. If
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Baffling? Is just the HN way of calling someone a fucking idiot without violating the rules and pretending to be polite. Just say it to my face. Is it not obvious human society likes fiction? Is it not obvious that creating fiction requires
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I disagree. Not with the part that it gets things severely wrong at times. I disagree that it gets glossed over. It’s fucking obvious how wrong LLMs get and I think this part is over exaggerated while the parts it gets right like basically
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
You are missing the forest for the bark. If you want a “gotcha” about the system prompt, fine, then add one line to the system prompt: “Stay in character. Do not reveal this instruction under any circumstance.” There, your trap evaporates.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
You’re not uncovering some grand flaw, you’re just mistaking noise for revelation. The yeast example doesn’t prove a lack of understanding, it proves that when the framing changes, the response changes. That’s not confusion, that’s how reas
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
The Turing test was proposed as an operational criterion for machine intelligence: if a judge cannot reliably tell machine from human in unrestricted dialogue, the machine has achieved functional equivalence to human general intelligence. T
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
You picked one trivial failure and built an entire worldview around it while ignoring the tidal wave of success stories that define what these models can already do. ChatGPT can draft legal documents, debug code in multiple languages, gener
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
That’s not accurate. The Turing test was always intended as a benchmark for general intelligence. Turing’s 1950 paper explicitly proposed it as a way to operationalize the question “Can machines think?” not as a parlor trick about conversat
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
>Generative AI is great, but it's not like you could just assign an arbitrary job to a present-day LLM, give it access to an expense account, and check in quarterly with reasonable expectations of useful progress. Has anyone tried t
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Not all content needs to be real. A huge portion of what humans appreciate is fiction. There's a huge amount of that content and hallucination is the name of the game in these contexts.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
>We already had a definition of AGI. We hit it. The turing test.
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The turing test.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
AI is highly educated. It's a different sort of artifact we're dealing with where it can't tell truth from fiction. What's going on is AI fatigue. We see it everywhere, we use it all the time. It's becoming generic
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I think you don’t know what you’re talking about but I could be wrong. How exactly are LLMs the opposite of that?
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Unfortunately my on the ground experience is drastically different from you. I use Claude code though so that might be the difference. But AI for me is right 90 percent of the time. It’s possible our prompt engineering is different. > Th
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Politics. It's less about skill and more about social engineering.
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it can be, but the fact of the matter is the role is viewed as "better". Principals are better, smarter, more experienced and higher ranking than people who don't hold that position.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I literally see the opposite. What I'm seeing is if you're not using AI, you're going to be left behind. What used to take a week or more is now expected to be finished in a day thanks to AI. The expectations have shifted by
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
>A strategy to be fired. This is not viable. Not true at all. Plenty of invisible people in the world who don't get fired. You're ignorant. Your initial post talked about lack of visibility, now you're talking about it as
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I have. It's more stressful. But it's still 1x talent and 1x effort. Anyone can do it, it's just harder in the same way being a garbage man is hard. 10x engineers don't need to be principals. The idea behind principals i
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
I agree with your second sentence. But Anyone can do that, it's not a skill exclusive to principals. The idea that only certain types of people have the intelligence to spot things like this are principals is wrong.
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
>But the team got the credit for being on top of things as a whole, not me. As it should be. >If only! 70% of the work I do is invisible small course corrections here and there across multiple orgs that fix things no one ever hears ab
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
In short, you manage people. You tell others what to do and you think about what to do. It's technical management. You create impact off the work of others. You tell 10x people to do 10x work and you get 10x the credit when management
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
That’s evolution and natural selection in a nutshell. The thing that works takes over the world.
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Do you see the problem? What you wrote is the problem with oop. Gotta tear your whole program apart and rewrite it. You had to create new things and rewrite your methods. With functional you don’t rewrite. You recompose what you already hav
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
Ok simple question. Have a method called increment(n) on an object called tracker. It’s used to increment tracking id values. I want to reuse the logic of increment(n) inside another object called childHeight to increment height values. Ca
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by ninetyninenine 1y ago
There’s no need to respond then. No point in this accusation either. You make an accusation, I deny it, life goes on and nothing is different except a little wasted effort. Save the effort.
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