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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
They're all Gandhi in Civ 5
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Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo(dropbox.com)
59 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|123 comments
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
These patterns overlap with formal writing advice because AI was trained overwhelmingly on academic papers, journals and professional writing so it inherited this style. I completely understand - and do not intend to disparage - the use of
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
These tropes emerge from the distribution of the LLM itself and from my experimentation it's actually very difficult to get an LLM to change its language. Especially when you consider they've been RLHFed to the max to speak the wa
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Yeah exactly, it's best to keep track and be aware of common tropes used in AI writing so that you don't end up 5 responses deep and emotionally invested in a conversation before you realise you've been fooled into speaking t
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
tldr: We took our hypertuned coding agent trained it on millions of internal data engineering workflows and data, with specialized custom-built tools, and it only managed to complete 3 more tasks than Claude Code (out of 43) on a super nich
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The British get a nosebleed when they get too successful(reaction.life)
2 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Glad we're moving in this direction, I've also got a tool that I use to determine if writing is AI using common tropes and reconstruct the OG prompt from it: https://tropes.fyi/aidr
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Evidently there is such little real human content and engagement on these platforms yet how does the big number keep going up? Genuine question. Do we need a way to audit usage stats in addition to financial numbers?
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Do you think it should be more forgiving? I've tried to calibrate it so that one or two matches don't flag you, but repeated patterns stack up.
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Yes, a positive from this is those with authenticity and taste will shine. Self-expression will be a form of resistance and we'll see a lot less homogenisation across things like writing, ui/ux, animation, individual websites, blo
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Show HN: Tropes.fyi – Name and shame AI writing(tropes.fyi)
5 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|3 comments
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
I agree with the risks. However the primary goal of the site is educational not accusatory. I mostly want people to be able to recognise these patterns. The WIP features measure breadth and density of these tropes, and each trope has freque
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Absolutely vibe coded, I'm sure I disclosed it somewhere on the site. As much as I hate using AI for creative endeavours I have to agree that it excels as nextjs/vercel/quick projects like this. I was mostly focused on the cu
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Sorry to hijack this thread to promote but I believe it's for a good and relevant cause: directly identifying and calling out AI writing. I was literally just working on a directory of the most common tropes/tics/structures t
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
> The value of human thinking is going down. Wrong. Creativity, innovation, intuition, taste - all forms of thought solely inherent to humans, all going up.
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AI Flattened the Engineering Ladder(ossama.is)
1 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
This is not either of those. This is the equivalent of a eulogy to a passion and a craft. Using an LLM to write it: entire sections, headers, sentences - is an insult to the craft. The post in the same vain, "We mourn our craft",
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
The irony of these "My craft is dead" posts is that they consistently, heavily leverage AI for their writing. So you're crying about losing one craft to AI while using AI to kill another. It's disingenuous. And yes it is
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Forecasting Models to Improve Driver Availability at Airports(uber.com)
1 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|0 comments
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Everyone is now an (underpaid) CTO(ossama.is)
3 points by ossa-ma 8mo ago|0 comments
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Why don't you take a more proactive role in AI safety and alignment? I think that community would suit you better than some of the AI-maximalists/accelerationists here. I do agree with some of your points, AI may result in a techn
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
With all due respect to the author, this is a lot of words for not much substance. Rehashing the same thoughts everyone already thinks but not being bold enough to make a concrete prediction. This is the time for bold predictions, you’ve ju
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Yes the detachment is very evidently in the room. Nobody, literally nobody, goes on social media with the intention of interacting with an AI agent. Social media is a human context with human experience, perspective, emotion and relationshi
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
The entire framing is "how do I extract maximum value from candidates" - sorting people into "covetable senior talent" vs "almost replaceable juniors." There's zero consideration from a "lead" an
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
Add Andrej Karpathy to the ignore list.
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
> Your daughter has taken a job at Blackstone? My condolences. LMAO. One of the best articles I've read on financialization, author is very opinionated but backs it up with evidence. Very hard hitting,
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
What does someone that works at Google, on Gemini in particular, have to gain by promoting Claude? Not being cynical just curious, isn't there a direct conflict of interest here?
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
I haven't seen any examples of that. Over the past few months mentions of AI in job applications have gone from "Comfortable using AI assisted programming - Cursor, Windsurf" to "Proficient in agentic development" a
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by ossa-ma 8mo ago
> "75% of enterprise workers say AI helped them do tasks they couldn’t do before." > "At OpenAI alone, something new ships roughly every three days, and that pace is getting faster." - We're seeing all these p

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