When you're testing something

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Slopcraft and the LLM Society | Hacker News

All of my rants are delivered with great affection and gratitude to everyone here in my heart

@verbiricha a couple issues on the new habla editor (thank you by the way, it's beautiful): - The paragraph after a block quote gets sucked into the quote on publish unless you insert a blank line between - Sometimes publishing doesn't stop loading (but the post still publishes) - It would be nice if the header floated, otherwise you have to scroll back to the top to access certain functionality - An edit button on posts that you wrote would be an intuitive shortcut, although I do like the menu on the editor page.

It's hard to talk about AI. It's just such a massive, multi-faceted topic

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My anti-AI takes aren't popular, weird

Being anti-technology is like being anti-tree. Technology is non-negotiable, it's just a fact. But individual technologies, like forests, can change over time. And individual applications of a technology, like trees, which are particular, contextual, and concrete, can be modified to suit the user and his environment.

LLM-assisted coding can be used to good effect, but I think it's pretty clear at this point that its impact has so far been a net negative on productivity in real terms.