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by whstl 2mo ago
There is a light at the end of the tunnel for all the minds burned out by AI slop. I already saw someone getting fired for only producing AI text as part of their entire output, after being unable to explain what they “wrote” in multiple si
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yep I do the same. Also zero trust from my side.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I agree 100%.
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by whstl 2mo ago
A lot of people are reporting this internally. The ones not complaining are not reading the text at all, and just forwarding it. It's insane. But we gotta learn to deal with it in a sane way…
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by whstl 2mo ago
Oh, wow, haven't heard of Apple Mail plugins in a decade! I really thought Apple would have deprecated them by now. Mail plugins are kind of a special case, they're REALLY "legacy", so they work by sharing process memory
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by whstl 2mo ago
Tangential but: "Access to Photos" is a complicated one: Lots of apps only needs this permission when building a custom photo selector. Like Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram do, also Slack. For every other app, they can use t
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yeah, that's true. Eventually you get the second batch of people who insist on doing things their way, and then that culture slowly dies. I haven't seen any company recover from that, ever. Once they balloon to 250, 500, 1000, 200
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by whstl 2mo ago
> The responses, PR descriptions, and code comments are so verbose with new A. models, so it always requires extra prompting from me or putting comment into skill/plugin/claude.md to make them of a reasonable length I have me
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by whstl 2mo ago
Opus 5 loves taking breaks and doing only half of the work, somehow. But I really wish those tools behaved more like tools. Behaving like a human can be cute from a marketing perspective, but the façade of humanity they insist on displaying
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by whstl 2mo ago
Also, the system prompt, or even something reinforced on every message, is nowhere near as strong as its internal training or as an external safeguard. If the prompt were the only protection, it would be extremely easy to produce illegal co
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by whstl 2mo ago
No. Just because I gave you an answer that doesn't satisfy you, doesn't give you the right. People don't care about the same things you do, so they want to keep the current phone, they just want added functionality. You'
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by whstl 2mo ago
I am not talking about myself. That's where the empathy part comes.
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by whstl 2mo ago
1. Not wanting to. 2. Caring about other aspects of the device. I don't personally agree with Apple's decisions, but you "vote with wallet" people need to have at least some modicum of empathy before you start demanding
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yep. And it's not just PMs. Everyone with any responsibility for picking any software in a company will work very hard to make things harder and more expensive, rather than easier. People will ask for a 100k-year app, or whatever is th
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by whstl 2mo ago
> Plenty of reasons to continue using WinForms for quick and dirty utils. Indeed. But I always found WinForms also better for "slow and polished".
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by whstl 2mo ago
Mark Zuckerberg already managed to replaced friendship with political outrage (Facebook) and with toxic parasocial relationships (Instagram), for a big chunk of society. Anyone doubting that he can do the same with AI has too much faith in
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by whstl 2mo ago
Mad amounts of respect for that. The decision was not out of just complaints: we already had someone fired during the probation period because they were unable to write stuff without AI and were just shoving slop at developers. Not a techni
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by whstl 2mo ago
> the behavior is meant to have you shut up and trust it and not ask questions This seems to be exactly the kind of thing automated/massive training would produce, just like it did with sycophancy recently. Claude users would just
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yes. CLAUDE.md only works half the time, except in longer conversations, when it works about 10% of the time. Hooks are also useless in the sama manner, the agent learns to dodge “no comments” hooks (why is it adding them anyway?). Hooks to
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by whstl 2mo ago
A lot of people I work with are reporting that reading Claude-made PR descriptions is burning them out of doing PR reviews because it is incredibly tiresome to read. My company recently forbid AI-only text if it’s meant meant to be consumed
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by whstl 2mo ago
I really miss working with WinForms. Every other UI framework I worked before and after always left me with the impression that something was lacking, in speed of development, fast iteration, but also in the quality of the abstractions.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Reducing it to a "plausible set of excuses", among other things, is what I mean by shitting on other people's passion project. Saying that the "firing unity/unreal/godot" is what I mean by preferring monoc
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by whstl 2mo ago
Definitely not. Replying to the trope that exists in gamedev that "making the game is the only valuable thing, people who make engines are just making excuses". > Firing up godot/unity/unreal eliminates an entire uni
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by whstl 2mo ago
> Second it depends on what your or your teams experience level is. +1. I work in a Skunkworks department inside a larger/older company and we recently decided to stop using Python in the future, the company's language. Node.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Express, Lodash, jQuery, require still works, the language itself. Lots of CSS stuff are still virtually the same, as it only gets additions. Vue.js API from 10 years ago still works fine in newer versions. React class components still wo
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by whstl 2mo ago
Could be because of number of pages you have. At work we have several million public content pages, so a few badly behaving bots can already do a lot of damage. For my personal website it’s 10x more bots but I barely notice because it’s a f
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by whstl 2mo ago
You might be underestimating the kind of conversation going on between investors, CEOs and board members. Companies are losing investment because they're not positioning themselves as AI-centric or having AI features. This is happening
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by whstl 2mo ago
The writing has been on the wall for quite a while, thanks to Google itself and SEO, plus Google advertising channels. Some websites already had minimum “for humans” content for years, as it was all used to appease the algorithm. And Social
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yes your replies were needless.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I am not bothered or anything of the sort.

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