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On my knees begging that the developers of AI detectors use them on their own writing and that at least pretended to mask the obvious LLM cliches in their blog posts.
You're right, understanding things is so 2025.
The market has been creeping into more and more facets of our lives, with delirious results: social networks are the market mediating family and friendship, dating apps are the market mediating meeting strangers, etc. I wouldn't expect that the answer to these problems would be letting the market mediate even more aspects of our lives.
A summary of HN comments, posted on HN to generate even more comments. Very meta.
These people didn't get promoted or hired because of nepotism. A lot of them moved up the engineering ladder and are familiar with how software engineering works and the incentives involved.
Good one!
I'm sorry if I have offended you.
You probably have a great deal of understanding and knowledge about Git, and this book might be a good resource.
I'm not asking you to do anything differently, and yet I think it's important to realize that people have a deep aversion to text that appears to be LLM generated.
By "shame", I meant that just from a skim of the contents of this book, it can be hard to distinguish it from any other LLM generated text by any other author who has no idea what they're talking about.
That makes people (like me) inclined to discount what it has to say, potentially losing out on good technical content.
The book is definitely LLM assisted authoring yet it also has great content, so not sure we can immediately jump to shaming it entirely for being slop.
Personally I have an extremely hard time reading text like this and it makes me lose trust in the author. Publishing potentially useful Git knowledge this way is a shame.
The author works at OpenAI, so it's no surprise that they've stopped noticing how grating this kind of structure is to read.
Surprise, surprise, another piece of LLM-generated slop on the front page of HN.
From chapter 1:
When Git slows down, engineers adapt in bad ways. They stop asking questions the history could answer. They batch work to avoid sync cost. They keep messy branches alive longer, postpone cleanup, and treat the repository like something slightly dangerous.
From https://gitperf.com/epilogue.html
Once machines start producing code at machine cadence, the model from this book does not break. What changes is the pace: more branches, more commits, more automation, and more surrounding metadata. The traffic gets louder, and the features that keep Git legible under pressure move from "nice to have" to "essential."
These stop looking like side optimizations. They are what keep machine-scale Git traffic usable.
I feel I have a much more adversarial relationship with articles, comments and blogs online. I've been seeing old colleagues or acquaintances that I used to admire start to publish clearly AI generated blogs and I've noticed that my respect for them has taken a nosedive.
The online world feels much less useful now and I've been trying to read more physical books and to generally spend less time online (unfortunately one can't escape slop, as I've already seen clearly generated illustrations and photographs in billboards and subway adverts).
those of us in the space are aligned with America irrespective of who's in the White House
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department"
Do you have any more platitudes to add so I can fill my dismissive HN comment bingo card?
The real travesty here is that a hospital has a CEO.
I'd be curious to know why you decided to bet on weather patterns in the first place. Seems like a very roundabout way to lose money.
From the bottom of the linked article:
Full disclosure: iFixit has an ongoing business relationship with Lenovo, and we are hopelessly biased in favor of repairable products.
I hope OP took more effort in making Viva understand the problem than the obvious zero effort it took writing this post, given it is completely AI generated.
I would suggest reading into the history of South Korea after the war. Nothing suggests to me that it was a good outcome. As a small sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwangju_Uprising
Fascism rose in Spain, and Italy, and was defeated.
Someone forgot about the 40-year long fascist dictatorship Spain was under
996 can only be celebrated in a deeply rotted culture without worker rights and labor protections. Embarrasing.
This article is akin to pondering if people should cook their own meth because the dealer they used to have is now selling adulterated stuff that's less powerful.
This is literally an ad.
You don't need ordering guarantees for diffs: apply them out of order and the final result should be the same (that's one of the key properties of CRDTs).
Other big constraints are: marriage, religion, and choosing to go the VC vs. bootstrapped route in a SaaS business.
This gave me a chuckle. On of these is definitely _not_ like the others.
If you were offered 7-figures USD to do these kind of hours from anywhere in the world, would that make a difference?
Depends, if your work schedule leaves you so drained that it leads to extreme burnout and eventual depression, along with a string of health issues, then it doesn't matter how much money you make, because spending it won't bring you the joy back, and you may fall into a shopping addiction in order to keep you stimulated. Sometimes I think of telling my boss that I don't want a raise, I want less hours at the same rate.
Jornada partida doesn't tend to apply to office workers and white collar work in general. It's common to see it in small shops, but it's in steep decline even in those areas.
It might be helpful to read what "local first" means in this context: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
Having overtime pay that is a multiple of regular hourly rate is mandatory is many countries in Europe. Are you saying that European software tends to be more obfuscated? (answer: it is not).
FYI you can "vouch" for dead comments if you have enough karma. But in general, if a comment is dead it is a sign that it is not worth engaging with it.
Calling 4chan an anime board is probably accurate, it started as a copy of 2chan, which was anime-focused. Taking a cursory look at the catalog of most boards on the site will confirm this, you will find an anime reaction pic with high probability.