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Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I

Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point. I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

vdupras 8mo ago
I think the words are "you're absolutely right".
- ivcatcher 8mo ago
  You're absolutely right too.
- anon_anon12 8mo ago
  lol, chances of the same person using that kind of phrase and an em dash is so marginally low
bigDinosaur 8mo ago
[flagged]
- dang 8mo ago
  Please don't be hostile to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - mk12 8mo ago
    How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.
    - dang 8mo ago
      We can't always know for sure and people frequently guess wrong. Because of that, it's important not to lead by attacking the other person, especially when they account is new, because newcomers usually don't know anything about the conventions of this site. Under these circumstances, it's mean and destructive to blast them with rudeness. Rather, we should be welcoming them and gently educating them. If they're a good new user, they'll respond well to that (you can see an example of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682308). If they aren't a good new user, that will eventually become clear and the immune system (flagging, moderation, community members emailing hn@ycombinator.com, etc.) will eventually take care of it.
  - deleted 8mo ago
    [deleted]
  - olig15 8mo ago
    These posts will destroy this place. Post your AI written tools if you like - fine, but using an LLM to reply to comments is just insulting, and will make this place a wasteland of LLM. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t care about the usual good quality of the discussions on this site.
    - FergusArgyll 8mo ago
      I second this. Vibe coded projects can be cool (if they're impressive), articles about using AI can be cool (from the right people), articles about the future of AI can be cool. All of these can sometimes be too much and some of them are just poor projects / articles etc. But they should definitely be allowed; some of them are genuinely interesting / thought provoking. Someone prompting gpt-4o "Write a nice reply comment for this <paste>" and then pasting it here is never cool. If you can't write in english, you can use google translate or even ask an llm to translate, but not to write a comment for you!
    - dang 8mo ago
      I appreciate and share your concern for the quality of HN! But there are much better ways to take care of that than aggression towards newcomers. It's common for communities who feel that they're under attack to shoot-first-ask-questions-later when outsiders show up. This is itself a step towards community decline and has particularly bad side effects. We need to consciously avoid that here. Most HN users don't want to see LLM-generated posts [1] or even LLM-filtered posts [2], and we share those views. But this is a long-term trend that we're all slowly learning how to navigate. Brutalizing noobs doesn't need to be part of that, and we should all be careful about not doing so—partly because it's wrong to treat others that way, and equally because it's necessary to the life of this community to welcome newcomers. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generated%20comments&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22own%20voice%22%20&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
  - falloutx 8mo ago
    OP could be a bot/agent whatever. some signs point to it. It could be a funny experiment they are running on HN.

vdupras 8mo ago

I think the words are "you're absolutely right".

ivcatcher 8mo ago
You're absolutely right too.
anon_anon12 8mo ago
lol, chances of the same person using that kind of phrase and an em dash is so marginally low

bigDinosaur 8mo ago

[flagged]

dang 8mo ago
Please don't be hostile to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mk12 8mo ago
  How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.
  - dang 8mo ago
    We can't always know for sure and people frequently guess wrong. Because of that, it's important not to lead by attacking the other person, especially when they account is new, because newcomers usually don't know anything about the conventions of this site. Under these circumstances, it's mean and destructive to blast them with rudeness. Rather, we should be welcoming them and gently educating them. If they're a good new user, they'll respond well to that (you can see an example of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682308). If they aren't a good new user, that will eventually become clear and the immune system (flagging, moderation, community members emailing hn@ycombinator.com, etc.) will eventually take care of it.
- deleted 8mo ago
  [deleted]
- olig15 8mo ago
  These posts will destroy this place. Post your AI written tools if you like - fine, but using an LLM to reply to comments is just insulting, and will make this place a wasteland of LLM. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t care about the usual good quality of the discussions on this site.
  - FergusArgyll 8mo ago
    I second this. Vibe coded projects can be cool (if they're impressive), articles about using AI can be cool (from the right people), articles about the future of AI can be cool. All of these can sometimes be too much and some of them are just poor projects / articles etc. But they should definitely be allowed; some of them are genuinely interesting / thought provoking. Someone prompting gpt-4o "Write a nice reply comment for this <paste>" and then pasting it here is never cool. If you can't write in english, you can use google translate or even ask an llm to translate, but not to write a comment for you!
  - dang 8mo ago
    I appreciate and share your concern for the quality of HN! But there are much better ways to take care of that than aggression towards newcomers. It's common for communities who feel that they're under attack to shoot-first-ask-questions-later when outsiders show up. This is itself a step towards community decline and has particularly bad side effects. We need to consciously avoid that here. Most HN users don't want to see LLM-generated posts [1] or even LLM-filtered posts [2], and we share those views. But this is a long-term trend that we're all slowly learning how to navigate. Brutalizing noobs doesn't need to be part of that, and we should all be careful about not doing so—partly because it's wrong to treat others that way, and equally because it's necessary to the life of this community to welcome newcomers. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20generated%20comments&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22own%20voice%22%20&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- falloutx 8mo ago
  OP could be a bot/agent whatever. some signs point to it. It could be a funny experiment they are running on HN.