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
Getting tiresome, isn't it?