MattyRad

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by MattyRad 6d ago
I agree that OpenRouter kinda sucks, but it took about 15 seconds to see that a few sentences got reverse-compressed into what is now this article, and it's slop.
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by MattyRad 11d ago
The [content-based] trust layer of the internet is what we have deferred to this point, and what needs to be created (which is easier said than done, of course). Personally I think a web-of-trust Keybase-style solution could work... But buy
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by MattyRad 18d ago
That does indeed seem like LLM text to me, which makes a depressing article even morning depressing. Inauthentic and hypocritical. I'd like to give the author the benefit of the doubt, but since we've set all ourselves on being cy
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by MattyRad 25d ago
Jesus christ, the lack of self awareness is all so depressing. These Sisyphuses have doomed themselves to making NDFSMs deterministic.
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by MattyRad 1mo ago
Saying "more" seems generous. I don't trust Pangram at all, and I also don't trust the author at all. Both can be trustless charletans simultaneously, and I feel this speaks volumes about the state of digital media today
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by MattyRad 1mo ago
Whether that chess repo is genuine or not genuine, legal or illegal, tasteful or tasteless, vibed or not vibed, stolen or copied, the signal to open source maintainers is clear: get off GitHub. All I can hear is the nihilistic AI generated
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by MattyRad 1mo ago
I admit that I read this stuff for self-soothing, although the self-sooth is not about AI going away, just that SotA will become expensive enough that everyone stops shilling digital garbage everywhere all the time. If SotA does not go up i
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by MattyRad 1mo ago
That podcast was very timely and topical, thanks!
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by MattyRad 1mo ago
They even put it in quotes, because they know what they did. Maybe just take out the word "traditional" and be honest: "This is not an operating system. We're redefining the term because it is convenient for marketing.&q
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by MattyRad 2mo ago
I actually had a great session with Gemini pushing back on the "Max 401k" advice. Summarized in my own words: - Why would I contribute tons more to my already decent 401k? If anything, I want to pull from it. I refuse to dimin
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by MattyRad 2mo ago
Bummer that they didn't cite the product as being neither Open nor AI.
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by MattyRad 2mo ago
This is an agreeable article, sure, but the idea that an LLM fueled group or team will collectively have this discipline is... idk... bemusing and saddening at the same time.
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by MattyRad 3mo ago
"Involution" is spot on.
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by MattyRad 3mo ago
Not to distract from the message, but I appreciate that this is largely plaintext not React vibeslop.
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by MattyRad 3mo ago
My first thought is that this government-Anthropic feud is good publicity for both of them. - Anthropic is seen as a victim/hero - They get Government-endorsed model hype - Monday will be a bad publicity day with the new Agent
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by MattyRad 3mo ago
Also got this email. I doubt that Anthropic themselves are pushing identity verification, for what that's worth (which is admittedly not worth very much). It's a real shame though. Time to shop around, or bite the bullet and buy a
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by MattyRad 4mo ago
Keybase. Keybase was/is a trust network that was unceremoniously and unduly strangled. (You were the chosen one!) I don't know how its style of trust systems can help us solve these major trust problems, but I feel that it&#x2
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by MattyRad 4mo ago
Welcome to the dark forest.
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by MattyRad 4mo ago
I think the author is describing the new incarnation of the Death March. In the Death March, contributors know that an active project will be dead-on-arrival, or cannot be redeemed. Maybe a small difference here being that the AI-equipped c
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by MattyRad 5mo ago
Good for the author for finding some success. I'd recommend seeking a significant other, somehow that sounds less daunting that making friends past 30. Cool roommates are friend-ajacent and help with loneliness; I had a cool roommate f
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by MattyRad 5mo ago
See below that: 'Don't believe self-serving lies about technologies being "inevitable" or "here to stay". You don't have to just go along with the dominant narrative. You can make deliberate choices and he
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by MattyRad 7mo ago
> One engineer captured this shift perfectly in a widely shared essay, describing how AI transformed the engineering role from builder to reviewer. I stopped here. Was this written by an an LLM? This sentence in particular reads exactl
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by MattyRad 7mo ago
Hoenikker had been experimenting with melting and re-freezing ice-nine in the kitchen of his Cape Cod home. Beautiful, perhaps like ice-nine is beautiful.
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by MattyRad 7mo ago
Yeah, agreed. I probably wasn't going to delete my OpenAI account (ala the link that is also being upvoted on HN), it just seemed like a hassle vs ceasing to use OpenAI. But when the staff at OpenAI employ mental gymnastics, selective
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Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)(soapstone.mradford.com)
98 points by MattyRad 8mo ago|103 comments
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by MattyRad 8mo ago
I use agentic LLMs (for side projects, properly sandboxed) as much as the next guy, but collectively the normalization of deviance is pretty apparent and shocking ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization_of_deviance
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by MattyRad 9mo ago
Tangentially related, "slop" really isn't a negative enough term for unwanted LLM garbage. "Slop" which is fed to pigs, has utility. "Slop" as a verb doesn't necessarily have a (strong) negative assoc
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by MattyRad 10mo ago
I think this was a really good article up until `on power`, where it became whiny, vindictive, and aimless.
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by MattyRad 11mo ago
Ok, I'll bite though, let's try it out as a non-maintainer. I loaded https://0github.com/laravel/framework/pull/57499 . Completely random, it's a PR in the last github repo I had open. At 60%, i
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by MattyRad 11mo ago
Seems like a catch-22. For codebases that I'm highly familiar with and regularly perform code review in, I'd say "thanks LLM, but I don't trust you, I'm more familiar with this codebase than you, and I don't ne

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