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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?(atomic14.com)
954 points by iamflimflam1 3d ago|404 comments
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by iamflimflam1 4d ago
I also reported it - twice - and was fobbed off. The frustrating thing is, this is very easy for AI to detect. Just feed the image into any AI and it will tell you it is deceptive.
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by iamflimflam1 5d ago
I was getting an advert that was obviously some scam software on YouTube mobile. The image looked like a system alert that storage was low. It was an obvious attempt to trick users. https://bsky.app/profile/atomic14.bsk
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by iamflimflam1 5d ago
Social networking apps have morphed into content consumption apps. When they were still social networking they were useful. There is an argument that they made it too easy to still feel connected. What should have been a phone call to talk
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by iamflimflam1 9d ago
The internet has broken me. Whenever I see a question like this i now automatically expect it to be some marketing attempt. There will be a product/service/blog post somewhere in the comments.
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by iamflimflam1 10d ago
They must have picked that habit up from Claude...
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by iamflimflam1 10d ago
I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me. His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...
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Computer Science Achievement and Writing Skills Predict Vibe Coding Proficiency(arxiv.org)
2 points by iamflimflam1 10d ago|0 comments
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by iamflimflam1 10d ago
It really depends - it’s trained on fairly limited data (things I could generate from Claude opus 5 and ChatGPT (pre-Astra). It’s now quite hard to get non AI training data…
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by iamflimflam1 11d ago
I did some experiments with very simple AI detection. You can get a very long way with simple ngram probabilities. https://meatbag.atomic14.com/ https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/18/detecting-c
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by iamflimflam1 11d ago
Seems likely (to me) that he was probably using his company laptop and it was connected to the corp VPN most of the time.
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by iamflimflam1 11d ago
I did this recently - https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/03/twelve-dev-boards-from-o... Instead of trying to vibe it all - I got Claude to write deterministic scripts for creating the boards. And did this befor
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by iamflimflam1 12d ago
Let me add my elite clone - https://harmless.atomic14.com
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by iamflimflam1 14d ago
What support do you have in your job - are you in a team of product managers/owners. Is there a tech/team lead on the project - what’s their opinion of the progress the team is making? It sounds like you are taking all the deliver
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by iamflimflam1 15d ago
My reading of the law was that watermarking is not required by it at all. It’s a convenient excuse for the companies that want to add watermarking.
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by iamflimflam1 15d ago
I really hope the improvement in natural style is real. When I’ve tried to adjust the output style is that initially it feels better - but that’s just because the new output is so refreshing to read after the horrible Claude output. Unfortu
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by iamflimflam1 16d ago
This is a real problem, and it’s not just in markdown files and docs. Claude loves to write things we’ve “discovered” in comments and then later in treats the comments as gospel truth. You have to constantly tend the garden and weed these t
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by iamflimflam1 16d ago
I’ve met a lot of juniors who have no idea what functional programming is.
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by iamflimflam1 17d ago
In my experience, every company is great until things start going wrong. And when things start going wrong, no amount of culture is going to save you.
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by iamflimflam1 17d ago
I listened to an interview with the Icelandic PM and this seems pretty much correct. She was pro EU but equally was very clear that there were other things the government could focus on instead. Do you want us to burn a huge amount of time
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by iamflimflam1 18d ago
Not much different from the UK to be honest. The constituency and first past the post system means counting is a nicely decoupled distributed system. Each constituency declares the local winner and the only outside impact is the total count
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by iamflimflam1 18d ago
They need time to build a cursor equivalent.
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by iamflimflam1 18d ago
Lots of enterprises don’t want to use OpenAI or Anthropic directly. They will go via AWS bedrock or google’s equivalent. The model providers are in a difficult position. With an added danger of open weight models that are within reach of la
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by iamflimflam1 19d ago
This really matches up to my experience on long research projects with Claude. It’s very hard to remove information - Claude has a habit of recording things all over the place and will happily treat things as facts even after they’ve been d
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
Maybe - but I would argue that the skill comes in knowing if the architecture is appropriate and knowing that LLM is not screwing it up.
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
I got this way with google (when it was still good) - what nonsense can I type and still get the right result - 99% of the time it would work.
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
Writing code with LLMs takes discipline and is difficult. You need to learn how to do it and how to get the best from it. Software engineering is dead, long live software engineering!
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by iamflimflam1 20d ago
That only works if the client looks at it. The current Claude fetch system does not.
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by iamflimflam1 21d ago
Somewhere, there’s a slide deck that shows future revenue going hockey stick.
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by iamflimflam1 21d ago
Closest thing would be the “El Farol Bar problem” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Farol_Bar_problem

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