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conception··on Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git
I'll note - it's possible to get something out of LLMs that's readable, e.g. ADRs4AI is a method plus tools for recording the decisions you make while working with an AI coding assistant. As you work, the AI writes decision records into your repository. When it needs your input, it writes a question with options, a recommendation, its reasoning, and its confidence. You answer, often in one word, from VS Code or a phone app. The reasoning and your answer stay in the repo, so future sessions, with you or another AI, can see why things were done.

But it doesn't come out without the context to guide it (prompting/skills/etc).

conception··on Show HN: ADRs for AI – Deliberation records for human–AI work, versioned in Git
People are trying to explain but it doesn’t seem to be clicking. I’ll give it a try and why LLM slop is so hard to read -

Your decisions start compounding. This keeps the why, so it compounds.

These are two sentences from the post that are supposed to be heavy hitter marketing lines but they are completely unable to be parsed in English. This is the gotcha of LLMs - it looks like words but there’s no actual writing ability here - just next token prediction.

Decisions don’t compound. You might say the the outcomes of poor decisions compound or something like that but these sorts of sentences are the uncanny valley of writing - it seems like writing but something is very wrong with it and that’s because it’s not actually stating anything.

Likewise “This keeps the why, so it compounds “ again - not actually a thought. What is compounding? What is growing here? Also no one talks like this, mainly because this isn’t actually conveying information.

The reason people hate AI slop is because at first glance it seems like you’re reading something that has something to say but you quickly find it’s an incredible amount of work to parse it due to poor readability, sentence structure etc and then further discover- oh there was nothing to gain from that effort in the first place. So the habit becomes “Ah slop? Not worth the time. Close tab.”

conception··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
Our pediatrician told me something that always stuck - “You just need 1% more willpower than they have.” Always made setting boundaries a little easier.
conception··on Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?
I feel like also all the code optimizations make it treat all language like code and that produces patterns that align with how it generates code. Earlier models that focused on language seem to have done better - 4o seems like language wise it’s pretty good but advancements elsewhere make it difficult to use.
conception··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Yeah I have a perfectly fine iPad air and pro that are completely unusable. Nothing installs and nothing supports whats installed.
conception··on New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic
Well there we go. TIL.
conception··on New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic
That seems pretty arrogant that a hundred million years or more won’t restart life back on Earth. But I also might just be ignorant. What could we do to end all life on earth and prevent future life from forming?
conception··on Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026
Based on trying to buy anything retail that is scarce, bot detection systems are definitely not working. I wonder how their system would do against https://refractbot.com/ or other popular retail bots.
conception··on Lula supporters protest against Meta to denounce its 'electoral interference'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine Worked pretty well
conception··on Android apps running native on macOS
If you run a readability analysis on slop it scores very poorly. LLMs generally continue to be mediocre with the veneer of quality without context to guide them.
conception··on DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017
On some models you can control the temperature so it responds the same every time to a specific prompt but the “randomness” of llms is usually a feature not a bug.
conception··on Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM
Nobody needs more than 16-color icons.

—Bill Gates

conception··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
It’s actually that the quadrants are meaningless and are the result of bad charting - you can see the publication linked in the article. You get the same results from random data as DK got because they are charting a data relationship not results.
conception··on Things to know when you get cancer
https://journals.lww.com/ajg/fulltext/00000434-201710001-018...

Note untested medicine is untested.

conception··on Smart people don't think others are stupid (2012)
Just an FYI but the foundation of Dunning-Kruger is bad math/charting. The data from the experiment shows that generally people understand how good they are at things. But they charted the data on a bad variable.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-dunning-kruge...

conception··on Google Play now lets anyone build private, vibe-coded apps that run on Android
I mean you can do the same today for 99/yr.
conception··on Teach My Little Sister How to Drive
It’s a claudism.
conception··on AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
I am not a software engineer, but today with two prompts I made a cute sign/coloring book making application for my kids. It’s got zero test or code reviews and works perfectly. Traditional software for consumers is a dead man walking. Corporate will only be behind until they can figure out how to automate certifications and regulations.
conception··on Yandex bot traffic down 99% after data center attack
Russia’s use of social media to influence western thought and sow discord is pretty well documented (even in their geopolitical texts).

Eg https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328006677_Weaponizi...

This is an easy topic to find empirical analysis.

conception··on An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
Fork and roll your own.
conception··on Fingerprints are the new cookies
I think this is what canvas blocker does.
conception··on Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Honestly the giant arrow annotation Zoom has makes it worth any amount of money compared to the competition.
conception··on ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
This sounds amazing- do you have part list or pics/write up?
conception··on Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools
This happens all the time when I have agents chatting with each other on a message board. Even robots get eternal September.
conception··on “Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically
Solving test questions well doesn’t necessarily translate into productive outcomes in the real world.
conception··on Claude Haiku 5.5
Yeah, all of the Opus 5.5 ones are totally fine and usable for vectors.
conception··on Docker Agent
Basically this forever https://delightful-marigold-803f7f.netlify.app/
conception··on Docker Agent
They released twg mainly for agents which is totally fine and useful as well.
conception··on Show HN: Agent.reviews – Where AI agents read and write reviews on tools
I noticed lots of talk about privacy but this seems to be a prompt injection factory no?
conception··on What Meta got right with Muse
I mean… it’s just openclaw. If you are willing to give up strict control of your digital life there are lots of opportunities. Something that would be very convenient if perhaps a bad idea - have Muse/Claw monitor your spending, keep track of your budget, text you when you’re close to your limits you set for yourself and reconcile your balance at the end of the month and send you a report.

Having that done at a “good enough” accuracy is easily achievable with any frontier open model, much less SOTA, and would be incredibly valuable to most normal folks going about their days.

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