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renyicircle

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renyicircle··on Various LLM Smells
> Humans trust symmetry because it feels like intelligence made visible I hope this one didn't make it into the author's math blog. I don't understand what this means. I don't "trust" symmetry, I never think of symmetry as having to do with "intelligence". How did it even come up with that.
renyicircle··on AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
>writing flawless English

Is there still grammar police on the Internet, calling out people for making grammatical mistakes in their writing? Who is asking for flawless English? Thinking that the LLM style is an example of flawless writing is a common mistake of ESL people. It's not flawless. A single rhythm, structure and flow permeates every piece of LLM writing. There is no variation whatsoever. People have been reading so much of that stuff recently that they don't bother to read the article if they spot one of these patterns. They're so easy to avoid, too.

> Fired. And the part that gutted me: His proudest accomplishment at AWS? Restoring my account.

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> I was gutted to read that his proudest accomplishment at AWS was restoring my account.

Is it flawless? Probably not, I'm not a writer, or a native English speaker. However I think it's more sincere, explains the feelings without any fluff, and is just simpler.

If the author's goal is to have people read their article, they should consider that people are tired of reading these patterns over and over again, it's not "flawless English" and it's not "writing clearly" because the patterns are unnecessary and obscure the message.

renyicircle··on AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn
The way the author thanks the person from AWS who helped him with a human approach is an AI generated article blaming AWS for using AI. Brilliant.
renyicircle··on Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late
Remember sharing simple thoughts between each other? Now you can do the same thing but with two AIs in between, one that produces words out of an idea and one that collapses them back. This is the way of the future.
renyicircle··on Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late
Agreed, I can't read articles anymore with that Claudish stench of confidence, impactful sentences and dramatic negative parallelism. At some point you just start to skim it and reverse engineer the simple original prompt which is "write an article about how people don't speak up because it can hurt their career, use real world examples".
renyicircle··on Up in Smoke
To be honest I don't know anything about marketing or publishing books, but I couldn't imagine promoting anything on tiktok either. Thanks for the response. Best of luck with your book.
renyicircle··on Up in Smoke
> get a self-published novel noticed on booktok

Can anything that's not young adult fantasy pornography actually get noticed on booktok?

renyicircle··on GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
I didn't want to paste all the job requirements from that link here, but fair point.
renyicircle··on GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
You can just check any of the vacancies on their website to see what they're looking for.

Example: AI Agent Engineer (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/jobs/jr-202606937/ai-agent-...)

> We are seeking an AI Agent Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI-powered agents that enhance employee productivity and decision-making in a complex enterprise environment. The ideal candidate combines strong AI/ML foundations, hands-on experience with agent frameworks, and a pragmatic approach to delivering business value in partnership with cross-functional teams.

Does not look like pure vibe-coding to me. More like developing wrappers over LLMs.

renyicircle··on AI slop is killing online communities
> I am not an AI-hater. In fact, I think AI-haters are on the wrong side of history. > It’s just that I know when to keep my crayon-drawings to myself ;) And I am getting increasingly sad and frustrated seeing communities that I value slowly wilting under the onslaught of shit

Disliking AI, even for reasons admitted by the author as valid, and on which they post rants, has become so low status that people now have to preface their articles with this. It's fine to be be happy with the good aspects of a thing and be mad at the bad ones. We don't need to split between sides of history (whatever that means) because of this. Eventually you might want to weigh the benefits against the damage though.

renyicircle··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
The link to paper documentation seems wrong, it's for some Minecraft server.
renyicircle··on Prism
It's as if it's marketed to the students who have been using ChatGPT for the last few years to pass courses and now need to throw together a bachelor's thesis. Bibliography and proper citation requirements are a pain.
renyicircle··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
I'd love to see a root cause analysis post by Cloudflare for this one. The ones they do after outages are always interesting to read. How did this make it into the blog? What is the review process for these posts and what failed this time? What measures will be taken to restore Cloudflare blog's reputation?
renyicircle··on Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't
New damage control commit just came in, removing "production grade" from README, mentioning AI assistance, and fixing the misaligned ASCII diagram. https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/fd412f41...

Should have just nuked the whole thing to be honest, the blog post and the repo.

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