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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Before AI this style of prose was called "thank you for coming to my TED talk", with a little bit of "LinkedIn broetry". Confident assertions and pat explanations about truths that will make you a better person upon inte
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
This reminds me of a portion of a talk Jonathan Blow gave[1], where he justifies this from a productivity angle. He explains how his initial implementation for virtually everything in Braid used arrays of records, and only after finding bot
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Re: kitchen appliance analogies, I stand by my "AI is a dishwasher" analogy. It's annoying that the dishes still have some pooled water in them when the cycle finishes; it doesn't always get everything perfectly clean; I
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
I think within the industry and practice there's going to be a renewed philosophical and psychological examination of exactly what accountability is over the next few years, and maybe some moral reckoning about it. What makes a human
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Same, it's the push that gets the ball rolling down the hill. >clearly expressing what I mean I have use for it here too - I use it like a "power thesaurus" when I've got the feeling that the word I have doesn'
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
As a consumer of them, I love them: a company with an influential, widely-used technology or platform spends a ton of money signaling to the industry exactly what's important to know about it, creating training curriculum for it, and a
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
With their blessing, right? See https://news.google.com/search?q=grammarly
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Suggestion: publish multiple versions of this post with different profiles and their human names applied to it by your product. To be very blunt I'm still not entirely sure if this is meant to be like very self-aware satire for people
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
Exactly, when your paycheck depends on you not being stupid, it takes some finesse, you can't just ask the silly questions and drop the mic.
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
>I think recognizing which kind of grief you're feeling is the actually useful thing here. If you're mourning the loss of the craft itself—the texture of writing code, the satisfaction of an elegant solution—that's real,
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
>I’m not really looking for something to read. I just want to skim an overview of the main theories. I’ve experimented with asking AIs to give the same information in various styles, and I reluctantly concede that the formatting helps.
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
This was discussed a few days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292485 EDIT to remove negativity, was unnecessary.
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by nlawalker 7mo ago
The linked article is just a wordy pointer to the video, which is in fact an interesting look. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIUQhb2h3A
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
The appearance of a thread here is so consistent that HN needs a black-bar style indicator for GH outages that points to it.
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
Peanut butter, chia seed and banana slices.
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
> PwC calls it "Pilot Purgatory." The pattern: AI gets deployed in isolated, tactical projects that don't connect to revenue. I feel like both the name and the description miss the mark though - the use isn't in pi
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
In elementary school, a couple friends and I sketched out an entire game's worth of ideas for Mega Man bosses and mailed them to Capcom (this would have been 1990 or so). I remember how thick the envelope was. I recall their response b
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
I don't disagree, but I think it would benefit everyone to be clear, upfront and honest with themselves and others about exactly what's being lost and grieved. The weeds are still growing and our hands are still available to pull
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
Microsoft too: https://learn.microsoft.com/training/support/mcp https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/mcp https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/microsoft-learn-mcp-se...
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by nlawalker 8mo ago
I see that as the point that all this is proving - most people, most of the time, are essentially reinventing the wheel at some scope and scale or another, so we’d all benefit from being able to find and copy each others’ homework more effi
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The Unsettling Rise of AI Real-Estate Slop(theatlantic.com)
3 points by nlawalker 9mo ago|2 comments
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
Gift link: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/02/real-estate-list...
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
It’s not COVID, it’s the rise of technology-enabled orderliness and reward for planning ahead, like ordering food and drinks ahead for pickup, or booking the specific seats you want at the theater, and growing expectations that such orderli
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
My two favorite bits of wisdom in this vein: Dan Harmon's advice on writer's block: https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/5b2w4c/dan_h... > You know how you suck and you know how e
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
Oh man, I feel this. Somewhat related, I've learned that when you're the one who ends up doing the thing, it's important to take advantage of that. Make decisions that benefit you where you have the flexibility.
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
>During the college football playoffs, ESPN’s family of networks will sometimes show the same game on multiple channels, with one channel broadcasting the whole affair from the Skycam camera. This is a remote camera hovering above and b
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
I have, but what’s relevant is that I’m always commanded to dump out any liquids in containers bigger than the 3.4 oz limit before going through security unless they’re like a prescription medication. What I’m unclear on why that’s changed
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
You’re right. I am genuinely curious though, so I shouldn’t have been so snarky about it. I’ll try again: I’ve always been under the impression that large containers of liquids were forbidden because they were potentially dangerous. If that
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
Let me get this straight. If the article is correct, the new capabilities are related to better detection of large liquid containers, not determination of whether or not the liquid is dangerous. So - you couldn’t take large amounts of liqui
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by nlawalker 9mo ago
>Shipping is a social construct within a company. Thanks for flagging this, this was an epiphany for me today, so for anyone else struck by it I'm linking directly to the article it's from (same author, and linked from the ar

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