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love2read··on Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
Is there an equivalent for macOS?
love2read··on the html review 05
my guess:

95% prefer email (anyone nontechnical)

5% prefer reader (a select group of technical people)

love2read··on the html review 05
This is really good stuff, I just wish they had an email list I could subscribe to. I get that they have an RSS feed but an RSS reader is more ceremony than I'm willing to devote to one website without an email form. It's a shame really because it's a pretty cool site.
love2read··on We are developing software with a slot-machine
> It's super addicting and gives you an illusion of productivity

Why is it an illusion of productivity if you work faster with it than without it?

> It has never been a competitive advantage to write code fast but writing the right code. If you could also do that fast you are golden.

Who decides whether or not the code is right? You, no?

> The same foundamentals that makes software stable, robust and good haven't changed. Writing software has always been constrained by thinking, design, trade-offs and understanding/mapping real world problems into proper systems.

I don't believe this to be true at all. I believe a significant portion of what writing software has been constrained by is the priority of the work in proportion to the amount of effort to perform the work. Yes, systems thinking also has a place in programming, but it has never been the constraint.

> It's very tempting to replace that flow with automation so you can get some hard earned sleep. But what happens when the agent(s) can't figure out what's wrong. What happens when you have to dig through an ungodly amount of unfamiliar code because you are the one responsible.

Hasn't this always been a possibility when using dependencies that you didn't write. And if anything, AI's "Build It In House" attitude has made debugging deep in the stack a much easier stack than it was when you were debugging someone else's code that's been published on some dependency registry.

> Add to this that these tools are nondeterministic. It was likely the tool that introduced the bug in the first place, how confident are you that it will actually fix the bug.

How confident are you in yourself fixing the bug if you wrote the buggy code? About the same, no?

> He might be an extreme case of this. But it happens if you are not consistently monitoring/watching these things to a point where you might as well write it yourself. The productivity gain is gone, atleast in the form that I read the commonly made arguments from Big AI.

> if you are not consistently monitoring/watching these things to a point where you might as well write it yourself

Why get any help with anything if you could take the full burden on yourself? Probably because with code it's much faster to verify than to produce.

> Add to this, that it seems like these models are performing worse after their initial release suggesting that we can't trust we get the same quality output for the same amount of money, since the providers are incentivised to make it cheaper to run them, i.e. slow use a less quantized version.

Well, you could just stop paying and write the code yourself, that seems to be the main alternative in this situation. But I don't hear of anyone doing that.

> You might still prefer the role of being an agent manager compared to being a developer but I thin the discourse around it making you automatically faster needs to change. Faster to what end? 92-95% uptime?

This has turned pretty quickly into an AI Bad post.

Also,

ridiculas => ridiculous

foundamentals => fundamentals

thatI => that (also double win because the font looks like an L not an I until copied into HN)

"and is lobster project" => and his* lobster project

incentivised => incentivized

Did people stop checking their writing for typos? Just throw the text into google docs, it's really not that hard.

love2read··on A Eulogy for Vim
I really hate that the author tugged at the heart strings of someone who is not alive anymore to back their cause of hating AI.
love2read··on Abusing Customizable Selects
The person who wrote this post is incredibly creative. Every one of these is more interesting than 10 google tools. I guess thus is the rule of industrial tools, that is, to minimize surprise.
love2read··on Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?
Someone against AI will tell you yes, someone for AI will tell you no. The only thing I can really say is that saying you have ADHD so you should have a reprieve from the normal rules is something that I don't agree with.
love2read··on Autoresearch on an old research idea
So... It did work. It found bugs (that he didn't know about) and it did optimization (that he hadn't done).
love2read··on If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?
I really enjoyed this blog format. I think it explained the problem well in a way that made it immediately clear why the solution solved the problem when shown DSPy.
love2read··on How to attract AI bots to your open source project
I really enjoyed this article. I don't have anything else to say. A like isn't enough.
love2read··on OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream
One more "AI is a security threat" post gets to the top of HN.
love2read··on Regex Blaster
what would the requirement be? "thou must provide the full paid service to those who do not pay"?
love2read··on Regex Blaster
Really fun. I just wish that stats were saved in localhost (like combat mode progress) and that esc instantly ended the round if you know you will lose.
love2read··on Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service
Interesting that the author (and "the others in his network") seem to only be concerned about the complete illegitimacy of their certs when they were already exposed and now they want to stand up and say they are the good guys for "exposing" Delve.
love2read··on Font Smuggler – copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs
I really like the style of copying the “google tool” style that this website and jmail use. It makes the project feel different compared to all the ai-generated app these days.
love2read··on Dolphin Progress Release 2603
I really enjoy how clearly excited the author is about what they wrote here.
love2read··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
I would assume VC's are dominantly US-based, and US-based VC's tend to be able to weather the landscape of American markets better than foreigners.
love2read··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Interesting, where did you hear about this?
love2read··on Google closes deal to acquire Wiz
Extra shade thrown at MoltBook (listed first) which was recently acq by Meta.
love2read··on I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine
It's sad to me how exciting it is to run <your own software> on <your own hardware>
love2read··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
I would think that you would just send posts with a prediction rate > X to the mod queue as auto-flagged
love2read··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
Why is that a tldr no if it did indeed catch the blatant ai comment? Are you funded by the competitor? Lol
love2read··on Stolen Gemini API key racks up $82,000 in 48 hours
Another plea for @dang to integrate pangram into all story and comment submissions
love2read··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
In the United States, cheating via AI is now rampant regardless of ethnicity. I know little of Australian Universities but I would assume it’s similar over there.
love2read··on India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders
Awesome ai generated comment. Seriously when will @dang integrate pangram into comments?
love2read··on Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering
This article was clearly written by a human (and AI) but still has a few "LLMisms" such as:

- The key insight - [CoreML] doesn't XXX. It YYY.

With that being said, this is a highly informative article that I enjoyed thoroughly! :)

The article links to their own Github repo: https://github.com/maderix/ANE

love2read··on Microgpt explained interactively
Is this AI generated?
love2read··on Microgpt
Can you share a link?
love2read··on Microgpt
This is an amazing example of a comment that says nothing. There's absolutely zero substance here.
love2read··on Microgpt
By "modified" this person of course means that they swapped out the list of X0,000 names from English to Korean names. That is seemingly the only change.

The attached website is a fully ai-generated "visualization" based on the original blog post with little added.

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