Soon there will be only 3 factors that we will care about: API (easy to use and integrate), behavior (does it do what I want it to do?) and testability (do I have sufficient guaranty that the code doesn't have errors).
The fact that the code was generated by a human or a machine is less and less important.
.c? what a yikes. I took a quick look at the code and this application doesn't even have any machine code in it, it's just words like "while", "for", "if", "else" and other English words - someone back in 1970s, I'm sure.
Yeah, hypers need to cool their language down a bit and llmuddites need to acquire a bit of nuance. New technology tends to create large camps initially on both sides :)
Because it is not reasonable to expend high effort to verify something that took no effort to create. That is not a workable long term solution. Instead you have to rely on low effort signals to signify if something is WORTH expending energy on.
Agree, but, ah, can you illuminate. <totally-offtopic data-but="i am intesnely curious"> Quite amazing 6000 points in under 3 months. Yuge. OK a few almost 1K posts, but they drop off. You must have some mega-point comments. Can you, eh, "point me" to a comment of yours that has a super amount of upvotes?
Sorry if this is weird, it's just I've never personally experienced a comment with anything more than 100 - 200 points. And that was RARE. I totally get if you don't want to...but like, what were your "kilopoint" comments, or thereabouts? </offtopic>
I think if you too retire, have nothing specific to do for some months, and have too much free time to discuss with strangers on the internet about a wide range of topics you ideally have strong opinions about, you too can get more HN karma than you know what to do with :)
Soon there will be only 3 factors that we will care about: API (easy to use and integrate), behavior (does it do what I want it to do?) and testability (do I have sufficient guaranty that the code doesn't have errors).
The fact that the code was generated by a human or a machine is less and less important.
And how do you verify those three things in a rapid low effort fashion?
.c? what a yikes. I took a quick look at the code and this application doesn't even have any machine code in it, it's just words like "while", "for", "if", "else" and other English words - someone back in 1970s, I'm sure.
Why don't you judge the results, if the slop is so easy to detect, instead of using the mere indication of a particular tool to mean it's slop? Lazy.
Healthy skepticism is certainly laudable, but too many llmuddites seem rather aggressive while whistling past their own graveyards.
Yeah, hypers need to cool their language down a bit and llmuddites need to acquire a bit of nuance. New technology tends to create large camps initially on both sides :)
Because it is not reasonable to expend high effort to verify something that took no effort to create. That is not a workable long term solution. Instead you have to rely on low effort signals to signify if something is WORTH expending energy on.
I didnt read your comment, because it would take me longer than just writing: your comment looks like LLM slop.
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Agree, but, ah, can you illuminate. <totally-offtopic data-but="i am intesnely curious"> Quite amazing 6000 points in under 3 months. Yuge. OK a few almost 1K posts, but they drop off. You must have some mega-point comments. Can you, eh, "point me" to a comment of yours that has a super amount of upvotes?
Sorry if this is weird, it's just I've never personally experienced a comment with anything more than 100 - 200 points. And that was RARE. I totally get if you don't want to...but like, what were your "kilopoint" comments, or thereabouts? </offtopic>
Yeah, thanks for giving me a reality-check on my HN addiction, really need to put back my original /etc/hosts file it seems :|
So, apparently these are my five most upvoted comments (based on going through the first 100 pages of my own comments...):
- 238 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635212 - Story: The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis
I think if you too retire, have nothing specific to do for some months, and have too much free time to discuss with strangers on the internet about a wide range of topics you ideally have strong opinions about, you too can get more HN karma than you know what to do with :)