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“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.” evidence ↗
12 experts 5 communities 1 sources clustered
Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Sasha Costanza-Chock Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich +4
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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15 experts · 36 posts · 12h ago
Mike Masnick Scott McGrath Grace Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Dan Hon Doll Alex Rubinsteyn
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“Did you try this yourself? Because I feel like a lot of people who dismiss AI coding outright have no idea what it's like. People are criticizing and fighting the idea of it they have in their head…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 3 Research & technical analysis · 2 Policy & governance · 1
Grace: He's upfront with when he uses AI, so you can trust he's upfront with when he doesn't
mackuba.eu: Please just stop…
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11 experts · 78 posts · 14d ago
Mike Masnick SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Arseny Khakhalin Doll austin Alex Gude
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“Criticism is ok, but what a lot of people are doing here is not criticism (some are openly bragging that they're doing bullying and will be bullying even more)” evidence ↗
Reaction converging Opportunity & adoption · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
mackuba.eu: FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out her…
Mike Masnick: And now I'm getting shit upon for merely repeating what people told me, which some jackasses are misrepresenting. 🙄 Doing a lot of blocking unfortunately.
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3 experts · 58 posts · 14h ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll austin
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“at $200 a month (plus, let's say $100-400 a month in overages), it was absolutely a steal, zero regrets. at $6k (10-20x the cost), it is pretty eye-wateringly expensive. anthropic is phasing out th…” evidence ↗
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for an engineer like me who is maximally using Sonnet, and hasn't yet switched to a local model, it's about $6k a month, or $72k a year. it is a very very hefty fraction of the salary, & is going t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is definitely not technology that, at the moment, you want put in the hands of the average white-collar worker right now, you'd be better off just hiring more workers, rather than pay for the …
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4 experts · 26 posts · 8d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Teresa Heffernan
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“It’s not just that guardrails are “advisory” in nature — guardrails have exactly the same bargain incantation to the bullshit engine nature as all forms of “direction” to models do. A human-biased …” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Something I notice watching top trending github repos and the eng discourse on bsky (on an alt acct) is that a significant amount of the popularly socialized software engineering behavior now is fu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: That’s pretty much what a lot of skills, agent frameworks, harnesses, etc amount to at the end of the day. And it’s not that these sort of artifacts do nothing at all — I have enough hands on exper…
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