overgard

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1. 541.▲
   by overgard 6mo ago

   Feels like a lot of summarizing, which is just something I rarely need. YMMV depending on your job of course.
2. 542.▲
   by overgard 6mo ago

   Maybe I lack imagination, but I just can't figure out what I'd use this for. I'm finding AI helpful in writing code (especially verbose Unreal Engine C++ code) as a companion to my designs, but, I really don't want it us
3. 543.▲
   by overgard 6mo ago

   I don't really see how that makes it ok. I stole your wallet, but I gave the cash to a homeless person!
4. 544.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   "AI native". I don't know if you intend it but you sound like a linked in lunatic, nobody talks like that
5. 545.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   Amusingly, one of the ads on the page for me is a very obviously AI generated image of a man with sciatica. I say very obviously because his hands are on backwards..
6. 546.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   I remember back in the early Windows XP era when things got so bad that Microsoft basically had to make a hard pivot towards security and reliability. I think they may need to do that once again. Almost every product of theirs feels like a
7. 547.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   I'm like 99% convinced that most of the AI conversation upvotes at this point is astroturfing. I just don't see the correlation with the sentiment I get from talking to people in the real world (mostly negative AI sentiment) vs wh
8. 548.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   Yes, the important thing is we automate away receptionists. Those rich fat cats.
9. 549.▲
   by overgard 7mo ago

   Is Anthropic raising funds again? I'm so sick of these thinly veiled advertisements.
10. 550.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Thanks! Link is much appreciated. I think the rare cases where things are reported should be recorded
11. 551.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Maybe we ask for drawings of pelicans riding bicycles. (Btw im still amazed how bad chatgpt is at making svgs)
12. 552.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I won’t take credit for this insight, but as someone else pointed out, everyone oversimplifies other people’s jobs. To PMs engineers are just code monkeys that they won’t need soon. To engineers, PMs are the guys that manage Jira. Designers
13. 553.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Fair. I might be a grump, I think I only emotionally downvote things!
14. 554.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Honestly they might also just be super hackable. I don’t even know my password on this site but given I set it like 15 years ago it almost assuredly sucks (I will fix!) I had no idea there was a black market for Reddit accounts. Count me na
15. 555.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Fair. I’m not trying to tell people they’re wrong to upvote it, I’m just feeling like I’m just reading ads for OpenAI and Anthropic at this point
16. 556.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I’m almost wondering if in a few years people are going to have to sign everything they write with a private key or something. I think anonymity is extremely important for society and the internet but bots are only going to get better
17. 557.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Yeah, the weirdly obvious nature of it gave me pause, but I think that might be a sign of a bot. Like “hey Claude come up with a username”. To me, it would almost be shocking if these companies weren’t using bots or paid posters on HN. I me
18. 558.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I did flag it. But I feel like if we don’t speak out we’re just going to get more of this.
19. 559.▲
    Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?

    49 points by overgard 8mo ago|39 comments
20. 560.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    What exactly would people retrain into? The future these companies explicitly want is AI taking ALL the jobs, It's not like PMs are going to be any safer, or any other knowledge work. I see little evidence that AI is going to create ne
21. 561.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I'm mostly reading the comments section thinking "wow, anthropic is putting a lot of work into astroturfing Hacker News right now in reponse to the new ChatGPT release"
22. 562.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Fair question! I've wondered that myself, there is always the possibility that the productivity gain is in my head. I'm not AI pilled, if these things disappeared tommorow I would probably just shrug, I'm just trying to keep
23. 563.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Green account ending in "cc". I didn't realize Hacker News was doing ads now.
24. 564.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Coding is one of the least gate kept things in history. Literally the only obstacle is "do I want to put in the time to learn it". All Claude is doing is remixing all the free stuff that was already a google search away.
25. 565.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I've heard this a thousand times and I have not once seen a person give an example of this actually happening. I'm more likely to believe the crocodiles coming out of sewer pipes urban legend at this point.
26. 566.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Believe me mate, everyone has ideas. Even if you have a good one I guarantee a thousand other people have thought of it first.
27. 567.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    So from my perspective as a professional programmer, my feeling is good on you, like, you're empowered to make things and you're making them. It reminds me of people making PHP sites when the web was young and it was easier to do
28. 568.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    Yes, we should punish care and craftsmanship. That's a recipe for success.
29. 569.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    > We can in fact just NOT do things! 100% this. I don't know why we think that pouring trillions of dollars into something we barely understand to create an economic revolution that is almost certainly awful is at all "inevitab
30. 570.▲
    by overgard 8mo ago

    I'm using Claude every day, and it definitely makes me faster but.. I'm also able to give it a lot of very specific instructions and correct a lot of mistakes quickly because I look at the code and understand what it's doing;