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Pre-Agent Nostalgia(pcloadletter.dev)
12 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|5 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Telling uses to “watch out for prompt injections” is insane. Less than 1% of the population knows what that even means. Not to mention these agents are commonly used to summarize things people haven’t read. This is more than unreasonable, i
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
https://www.pcloadletter.dev Some articles have been well-received here and certainly resulted in good discussion!
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
This falls under "lmao even" right? Like, come on, the entire business model of most generative AI plays right now hinges on IP theft.
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
An existential crisis about the future of professional software development
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Ask HN: Are you having existential questions about being a software engineer?
3 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|3 comments
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Features for no one (AI edition)(pcloadletter.dev)
1 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|0 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I’m surprised they had to make this clarification. In what world does any prize like this “count” if regifted?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Something to do with shareholders I guess?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
These prompt injection vulnerabilities give me the heebie jeebies. LLMs feel so non deterministic that it appears to me to be really hard to guard against. Can someone with experience in the area tell me if I'm off base?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Or Tay
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I did present my own evidence to support _my_ argument that the article is woefully lacking data to support its conclusion. It's not on me to try to make the counterargument (that AI coding assistants aren't getting worse) because
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Well, as much as I'm sure HN is a special place ;) , it is well documented that a lot of people on the internet just read the headlines
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
This may be a situation where HackerNews' shorthand of omitting the subdomain is not good. spectrum.ieee.org appears to be more of a newsletter or editorial part of the website, but you wouldn't know that's what this was just
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I think it should be on the article to prove its title. I hardly think presenting one test case to some different models substantiates the claim that "AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse." Note that I have no idea if the title
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I am used to seeing technical papers from ieee, but this is an opinion piece? I mean, there is some anecdata and one test case presented to a few different models but nothing more. I am not necessarily saying the conclusions are wrong, just
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I disagree with this. You can tell someone that a question is not appropriate for a community without being a jerk. Or you can tell them that there needs to be more information in a question without being a jerk. I do not think being mean i
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I very much disagree with the first point that there had somehow been a critical mass of questions achieved to explain the slowdown. With the change in tech, outdated answer, and increasing population of people writing code, I just don&#x27
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
>And nobody in the world knows how to keep communities from becoming toxic. There is simply no recipe. And that's why StackOverflow doesn't serve as a lesson either. I think a well-moderated community can be non-toxic. Lobste.r
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Do we know that it's fewer low-quality questions? Or is that just assumed because it's fewer total questions?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I have always wondered this. As more and more content on the internet becomes AI generated, does it become some kind of feedback loop where the hallucinations amplify themselves? Maybe someone smart can come along and help me understand the
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I know I always asked far fewer questions than I wanted to there for fear of being chastised. Maybe that's what the community wanted?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Me too. It does appear a bit more dramatic around when LLMs hit the scene but the was already a clear peak/decline starting well before.
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We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole(pcloadletter.dev)
100 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|212 comments
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
I think Cloudflare r2 has a generous free tier. You can also technically store images in redis I think. anyways, thank you for making this, really cool!
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Got it. Is that cache surviving the crashes?
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
You caching in memory or disk? Redis or db might survive the crashes and reduce future ones
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Reminds me of a comic I saw a couple years back about a horse parliament where the horses only voted “neigh”
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by ronbenton 9mo ago
Reminds me of an early form of IFTTT
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Ask HN: Do you feel an obvious "uncanny valley" when reading AI-generated text?
3 points by ronbenton 9mo ago|1 comments

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