Comment by selfawareMammal
19 days ago
> it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly.
I couldn't go on reading.
19 days ago
> it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly.
I couldn't go on reading.
I'm fine with people never justifying their personal choices. It's their business. But if they do bother to justify it then it's a show they put on for me. And reading this kind of explanation is like the show runner takes me for a fool. The net result is that I lose all respect for the person.
Unless they put on a show for themselves and that's who they try to fool. Probably why nobody mentions money in these shows. They're self motivational.
Plenty of other hints too
> Do anything, do it at scale, and do it today
> It's not just GPUs, it's everything.
> I'm not the first, I'm just the latest.
That is normal on his blog. He is a brand that he has developed over many years, and he is constantly promoting that brand.
Yes, he has done a lot of good work in the past, but he has put as much effort into self-promotion and landed a series of interesting and well-paying gigs.
I can't blame him for that. It just makes me tired to watch.
What the OP was pointing out is two typical tells for lazy ChatGPT-generated text, right in the intro. (The m-dash, "it's not just X, it's Y").
Of course that kind of heuristic can have false positives, and not every accusation of AI-written content on HN is correct. But given how much stuff Gregg has written over the years, it's easy to spot-check a few previous posts. This clearly isn't his normal style of writing.
Once we know this blog was generated by a chatbot, why would the reader care about any of it? Was there a Mia, or did the prompt ask for a humanizing anecdote? Basically, show us the prompt rather than the slop.
Reminds me of the TechCrunch episode of Silicon Valley TV show. Everyone was there to make the big buck but all collectively pretended they were doing their work for the good of humankind.
This guy and Rob Pike should have a talk.
That episode, and this Gavin quote, encapsulate the attitude perfectly.
“I don't want to live in a world where someone makes the world a better place, better than we do.”
Why Rob Pike in particular? Most stuff I've read from him was nuts-and-bolts technical.
I assume the Rob Pike mention was in reference to this:
https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile...
He apparently isn't the biggest fan of AI.
"Making the world a better place by constructing elegant hierarchies for maximum code reuse and extensibility"
Beautiful satire in that show. I'm still throwing my own version of this quote every now and again at the office.
me neither. are all these self declared fans commenting here real? I hope they're bots.
I meet people like this irl. I block them.
Do you think some of them are honestly like that? I can never quite figure out how many levels of irony^H^H^H delusion there are. Spoken as a person that would totally have his job, but just because it most certainly pays plenty and is likely fun to do.
People who use AI to write stuff meant to be read by people is L.
Idc if it’s a text message or some low stakes shit. Or marketing spam even because I get it. But this is where I draw the line.
Agree, that statement sounds a bit like gaslighting yourself
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