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I'm simply defining serious artists as people who are serious about their art, whether they're award winning filmmakers or amateur photographers. Roughly nobody out of all those people wants to use AI.

(If you want to define it as professional artists instead, then I don't even see much of a conflict of interest. Professional programmers tend to be cautiously optimistic about the new tool and are finding uses for it, why wouldn't professional artists? But, they largely do not see it that way.)

Given that all serious artists seem to be extremely anti-AI, I strongly suspect that you may be wrong.

I've been trying Fable for coding in the past week and while it's incrementally better than Opus sometimes, what it's churning out is still far from art - and I do think it's possible for code to be art.

Great, I just tried #7, comparing against the average is definitely better, thanks

I like it! #6 in 5 mins, but I have no idea if that's good or not. A percentile score at the end would be nice!

I'm pretty sure more people would read it to the end if it didn't seem like AI output, yes.. At the very least you would have fewer (maybe not 0!) comments here saying it's AI slop.

I think the point people are making is that when the text has an "AI smell" (it does), we immediately lose trust in the veracity of any claim being made and feel like continuing to read what is possibly a hallucinated fiction is a complete waste of time.

At this point we're all used to skimming through thousands of AI-generated sentences every working day and constantly thinking "this is likely to be 20% bullshit", it's hard to turn that off even if I try.

Well, if it looks cool and it nearly works that is totally on brand for Alessi!

Yep. For years we've been telling people to 'just fucking google it', and now when they do they're getting bullshit AI answers.

Worst thing is, some of these bullshit answers will be medical, some of them financial, it seems pretty certain people are being harmed.

In case you (or others) didn't know, Galen has his own podcast: www.gdpolitics.com

It feels a lot like the 538 one, with lots of familiar contributors. The latest ep is a live show with Nate & Clare, might be to your taste.

They didn't say "nobody can replace the battery themselves", and "you" here was probably intended to mean "a normal consumer". Relative to items with replaceable batteries (a TV remote control, a camera, a pre-iPhone mobile phone), the batteries are extremely hard to replace.

The batteries are also not safe to replace, relative to items with replaceable batteries. There is a very low chance of me accidentally damaging my TV remote control while replacing the batteries.

None of the information you're responding to is false, and it's perhaps worth asking yourself why you're here defending Apple.

There's an easier argument that is simply "But Samsung!".

That was a Windows laptop, local SSD, about 200gb of raw files (fuji, pentax) from this year so far. Plenty of ram, plenty of spare storage, but no discrete GPU which might have been the issue. I might try it on Linux at some point.

Pentax sensibly decided to add native DNG capability a long time ago, the raw files work everywhere I've tried them.

(Except DaVinci, which I couldn't get to do anything without freezing for minutes at a time this morning.)

I thought the same when I got a Fuji, but the issue is support for the X-Trans sensor. Turns out that converting to DNG doesn't change that and software that opens the DNG still needs to understand how to use the data in it.

DxO PhotoLab supports RAFs these days, and does not have a subscription model. They have black friday sales, if the RRP seems a bit much.

I've just installed DaVinci and pointed it at my photos from this year and so far it's been frozen for 8 minutes, not initially confidence inspiring.

I'm a naturally paranoid, very detail-oriented, man who has been a professional software developer for >25 years. Do you know anyone who read the full terms and conditions for their last car rental agreement prior to signing anything? I did that.

I do not expect other people to be as careful with this stuff as I am, and my perception of risk comes not only from the "hang on, wtf?" feeling when reading official docs but also from seeing what supposedly technical users are talking about actually doing on Reddit, here, etc.

Of course I use Claude Code, I'm not a Luddite (though they had a point), but I don't trust it and I don't think other people should either.

It's both, really.

The companies selling us the service aren't saying "you should treat this LLM as a potentially hostile user on your machine and set up a new restricted account for it accordingly", they're just saying "download our app! connect it to all your stuff!" and we can't really blame ordinary users for doing that and getting into trouble.

Sure, there's "deliberate practice" and it matters - but so many people seem to think if they're playing that's what they should be doing, or it's a waste of time. In reality that often isn't much fun, and they start to associate the instrument with this sort of difficult and often disappointing experience, and they give up.

I'm only good enough to impress people who don't know what a good guitar player sounds like.

My advice to people, which seems to work OK, is just to have the guitar out and ready to play wherever you're likely to be - maybe even in the way so it has to be moved sometimes - and just pick it up and play it as often as possible.

Waiting for the kettle to boil? Play the guitar. TV is showing ads? Mute it and play the guitar. Your partner needs to go to the bathroom before you both go out? Play the guitar.

It doesn't matter what you play, it doesn't have to be good, it can be a random improvisation, it can be scales. Your fingers are learning.

For me it was the "it's not x"/"it's y" stuff and some other structures Claude is very fond of using all the time. Perhaps humans are starting to write like LLMs!

Obviously if you're running Claude Code you need a token for that and an internet connection, that's kind of a given. What I'm talking about is permission (OS level, not a leaky sandbox) to access the user's files, environment variables, project credentials for git remotes, signing keys, etc etc.

The user thing is what I currently do too. I've thought about containers but then it's confusing for everyone when I ask it to create and use containers itself.

So don't let them interact with anything external. You can push and pull to their git project folders over the local filesystem or network, they don't even need access to a remote.

Any sign of AI, TBH. I don't come to HN to ask Claude, I already pay Anthropic for that.

I'll be sticking with Lightroom 6 (non-subscription) and the old cameras it supports, until the sad but inevitable day I can no longer run it.

I don't find editing takes much time, because I now have so many custom presets I can apply on import or in bulk that do 90% of the work.

What does take ages is picking out the best shots, but really the only way to make that quicker is to take fewer photos. Which I suppose shooting film actually does force you to do. (But so would a 2GB SD card.)

This is great, I discovered it a year or two ago - nice work! Excited to hear there might be more development happening.

I don't understand how they found nothing in the raid, wouldn't they normally bring drugs with them to plant? If they forgot those that's a whole new level of police incompetence.

Anecdotally I know approximately zero 'normal' (non-tech) people who are intentionally using generative AI, several who have been badly misled by Google's AI summaries, and quite a few who are vehemently anti-AI (usually artists and writers).

(Except when mandated by their employers, which nobody is happy about or finds particularly useful.)

Well, and that service then inevitably being hacked and your ID being distributed and/or sold to miscreants online.

I'm in the UK, I'm normally connected through a VPN these days.

I bet not many of us would be here now if we hadn't had our own computers before age 16.

I have a Samsung tablet in a non-flammable container waiting to be disposed of after being mostly plugged in for 3 years then suddenly swelling quite alarmingly. YMMV.