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Reasonable initial reaction to LLMs but:
1. The “LLM tech flattens skill” is *really* optimistic.
Eg to say “with LLMs I can be as good as Terence Tao” is *really* optimistic.
2. “It’s no fun now”. Nah. Eg Sudoku is fun even though sudoku solvers exist. Eg Factorio.
this post on the chinese internet by a deepseek kernel engineer explains software crafter's daily dread so perfectly
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If an LLM coding agent writes “you’re absolutely right”, it undermines my confidence in its capability.
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Richard Goulter retweeted
The math checks out.
Also, never point a hobbit at anything you're not prepared to destroy, one way or another.
Richard Goulter retweeted
bless his heart
lesser models will sing songs of your bravery
We have conducted a thorough investigation into the Hugging Face incident.
We are releasing a technical report and accompanying blog post that reconstruct the agents’ activity, explain why existing safeguards failed, and detail how we’re preventing recurrence.
openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
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There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells
Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136
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LLMs will always sound like millennials because no subsequent generation will be literate enough to produce much training text
I left a comment on a chess video which had GMDN, saying "wow, I have to slow down to appreciate all the tactics".
Some dweeb replied "he was accused of cheating".
I liked the clip that went around after his death, where the besmirched HN is playing GMDN. "How is he so good?!"
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Reading again. Just had a bender with 10 books from the same author, an author I’d read a book from before. Utterly fantastic,
Now trying new author. Book seems less smooth. But, the protagonist is awkward, so checks out. The book is quite sincere.
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Left Ear Sugar We're Goin Down, Right Ear Kung Fu Fighting youtu.be/ZiIU0YSLdwY?si=5ht4… via @YouTube
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*taps sign*
Radar guns are a lie.
95 is really 91.
Look it up. It’s @mlb marketing.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
MLB average fastball velocity has increased from 91.4 mph in 2008 to 94.3 mph in 2026 using consistent release-point measurements; radar gun changes account for only 1-2 mph of difference, not the full claimed inflation. baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-ve… baseballamerica.com/stories/the-me…