Comment by floortepw

8 days ago

You conveniently left off the follow up.

> @zeroxBigBoss: .. It's not all AI, I have experience with Zig and MacOS, ..

> @mitchellh: I appreciate it! And my bad on the experience, I must have misunderstood or misremembered your messages

Use xcancel. For the very least to see an entire thread.

Every time.

  • Another victory notch for the "AI Influentist" article[1].

    Step 1: thought leader reveals Shocking(tm) AI achievement

    Step 2: post gets traction

    Step 3: additional context is revealed, dragging the original claim from the realm of the miraculous to "merely" useful.

    I don't think Mitchell intentionally misrepresented/exaggerated, but the phenomenon is reccuring. What's the logical explanation for the frequency?

    1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46623195