And similarly, all your other points. But of course, the more I say "you've got to prompt it right", the less value the AI is providing. A great AI would of course have that taste on your behalf.
This is something I actually cover in the follow-up project's how-to. Ask the AI to sense check the info you've supplied. It can tell you "hey, maybe you should mention venue address".
That's half the reason we have futures contracts. If they were only on nonperishable goods you could just buy the goods and store them in a warehouse. Futures contracts allow you to do something similar with perishables.
Just as with "you're absolutely right" and the em-dash thing, the image models have a load of habits they fall back on. Some of them are easy to spot - the yellow filter, making grids of icons, ...
Others are things you recognise subconsciously without being able to describe consciously. I've been experimenting a lot, and I can probably see more tells than most people. But sometimes it's just a sixth sense.
And some of those tells do now give me the ick. And some of those tells are in the "better" posters on that page. Today I would clean them off.
But I still think it's unnecessary and dishonest to try and hide that it's made by AI - just tidy up the bits that give people ick. Same goes for text, btw.
Honestly you probably want a model that has only been trained on language and literature. Nothing from online discourse.
And even then… writing is personal expression. Here people are talking about commit messages. That’s fine but AI doing writing for anyone and I WILL NOT READ IT unless it’s literally basic tech manual.
We read to hear and engage with people’s thoughts. If someone outsources that to AI then they should be shunned.
You either replied to the wrong comment or didn’t and proved my point exactly: some people like the technical low level approach, others prefer the higher level architectural work.
There’s space for both and there’s a need for both.
> Instead I hear about the great time Claude had being prompted to do it.
I don’t think anyone is talking or even considering how much fun Claude had coming up with the code for this.
Fun is subjective. “A great time” is subjective. The author could have had bucket loads of fun discussing, architecting, rethinking, planning and bringing the project to life through Claude. Or they could have had a miserable time with Claude but just wanted to see the thing working. Maybe both? Maybe neither?
The point is: chill. AI is nothing more than a tool. A tool that requires an operator. And like every other tool in human history, it can produce bad results or wonderful results, it all depends on who’s operating it and how much domain knowledge they have.
Things aren’t so black and white. Open up your mind a little (crazy concept, I know) and just let people enjoy things.
I wonder if the author is right; using a slightly wrong capacitor for the clock (keeping in mind that they're usually +/- 10% or worse from the factory) may produce a different oscillation speed, but usually not an outright failure. These chips accept a pretty wide range of clock frequencies.
And in the comments, they note:
"I replaced the 18pF capacitors on one of the non-working boards with 10pF capacitors, but it still doesn’t boot or respond to the debugger. That surprised me – I thought that was the answer! It was a rush rework job and I made a bit of a mess of it, including accidentally desoldering and reinstalling the crystal, so I’ll try again later with another board. But it appears that the capacitor value may not have been the issue after all. Either 10pF is a bad value, or it’s the crystal itself that’s at fault, or I’ve failed somewhere in my troubleshooting reasoning. Hmm."
In my experience, mystery stability problems are often caused by capacitors, but of a different kind: decoupling capacitors on the power supply pins. If there's not enough of them to keep up with the noise originating from motors or digital switching, I'd expect that exact issue. Intermittent "impossible" CPU states on some boards, no rhyme or reason (because sometimes, that +/- 10% saves you and sometimes it does not). I'd try more caps and possibly some ferrite beads.
Not all AI-assisted projects are AI-slop. The fact that you think so only tells me that you’re deeply insecure about your knowledge of a subject that you’re interested in.
When there really aren't any jobs for the former window repair man to do, we are in a "post scarcity economy", which could be a utopia where everyone lives in comfort and has more leisure time.
Or of course, a few billionaires could hoard the wealth.
There's a Wikipedia page about it.
We could be in a post scarcity economy now, except that generally instead of realising we all have enough of we share, we raise the threshold of what we consider to be enough comfort and stuff.
> But that brings me to the second half of the argument: I think we upvote this article in large part because of the historical association of a "crazy 8-bit software project" with "something that took perseverance and skill and our community should reward it". That link is severed now.
There’s the problem: you are assuming everyone else thinks in elitist terms like you. It still is a crazy 8-bit software project. It still rather impressive and fun to see.
Your “historical reason” reads a lot more like whining than anything else and it does come across as a display of insecurity.
AI is just a freaking tool. The dev used to tool to bring his vision to life. That’s the extent of it. Stop making such a fuss over something that quite literally was just made for fun.
Let people have fun in peace. Let people enjoy things in peace.
I agree with this. There was historical evidence like Trump traveling to Russia in the 1980s and buying a huge, very expensive anti-NATO ad in a newspaper after he returned.
Then, like Epstein, he had many Russian contacts who sometimes "overpaid" for some of his real estate.
But overall: He was always against Russia's "friend" Iran, delivered Javelins to Ukraine during his first term. He cancelled the INF treaty.
The "row" with Zelensky in the White House was theater. In the full footage Trump winks at Zelesnky before kicking him out and Zelensky smiles and puts a thumb up.
Ukraine support is by no means halted. The EU is forced to pay more for the US proxy war, but the US still plans and decides.
Then he attacked Iran, Russia's ally.
So watch what he does and not what he says. You could also say that his Russia friendliness was a cover for the real plans.
maybe they have a day job in a jurisdiction where their employer could claim ownership of the code if work was done during hours they paid for. it would be safer to scrub commit times if you’re worried about an aggressive employer.
> If the author didn't do this for themselves - to learn, to show off their skills - then why bring it to life?
Why not?
What if the person just wanted to see if it could be done and how it would look like, but wasn’t interested in the nitty-gritty bits in between?
There’s so much elitism and “you can’t sit with us” energy here that I feel like I just lost 4 decades of my life just reading this—and not in a good way.
Yeah, there certainly is AI slop. But there’s also very good uses of AI. So how about we stop shaming people for just building things they wanted to build using the tools at their disposal?
> But now, it isn't, so is it still something we ought to celebrate?
Why isn’t it? Don’t “having an idea and acting on it” count anymore? You guys seem so utterly insecure it’s depressing.
