Oh no, you said "landed"! It's dug into our brains!

I hate that I have to change the way I write to avoid AI-isms. I loved using "load bearing" to describe weird code that you think you can delete but is actually holding everything together.

Now people think I'm just parroting what Claude said. It sucks. I want my catch phrases back, I guess this is how em dash users felt

As a former em-dash enjoyer, I indeed feel your pain.

I will continue to use em-dashes as I always have.

When someone uses the presence of em-dash as the only signal for AI-generated then they are simply lazy.

I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.

RIP. I had frequently used ALT + 0151.

Same here for em-dashes

I feel like a lot of these have been LinkedIn-isms or PR-isms long before they have been AI-isms so not much is lost.

I used to use em-dashes for explanatory clauses--like this one, for example--when using commas would make the sentence difficult to parse due to other nearby commas.

They're only a LinkedIn-ism when used to create an unduly dramatic juxtaposition for an otherwise mundane idea. But now they set off people's AI radar when used for any reason at all.

Perhaps I am biased because I find the use of em-dashes without spaces (as is common in English typesetting) to be inherently ugly so I'm not too unhappy to see their use discouraged.

Same here. I was always more of an en-dash enjoyer, and used that back in academia since it's just a double-dash in Latex.

You could say it landed cleanly.

Good instinct. Fair challenge. This corrects my framing. It makes your point sharp. This is a significant finding. Positively confirmed. That settles it, and it flips the picture. Honest verdict - this is not small. Let me wire it in.

There's got to be a Weird Al song like this coming soon.

Behold, The Masterpiece :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49251221

This is one of my favorite things to have ever read on HN

Bless the lord that it's not been presented to us yet, because you just know that it exists already.

Oh. Oh no.

Smoking gun!

I think remember you said in one episode you didn't want to run ads in the podcast so you could talk about anything you want, but most of the episodes are about one of historical events. Do you really think the sponsors would try to alter your content. Personally I wouldn't mind 1 or 2 ad spots in the episodes.

Well, our unwillingness to be beholden to sponsors is just part of the reason we avoid advertising, but it's not an empty concern. We've done stories that big brands wouldn't like (the true story of Colonel Sanders, the New Coke debacle, etc) and we frequently share some unflattering stories in our Curated Links section.

The larger reason is just that I personally despise ads. I take great measures to eliminate them from my life--paying for YouTube Premium, using the SponsorBlock plugin, running aggressive ad blockers on every device, piHole, etc. It would be quite hypocritical for me to add ads to my own content, I don't think I could live with myself.

I know that some podcast providers wrap ads around everything anyway, but that's between the listener and their provider, there are absolutely ad-free alternatives.

It rejected Asians more because of their higher SAT scores? If it’s not directly based on applicants disclosing their ethnicity then probably something more obvious like names.

Inertia is on our side

4 day work week could help with this like weekends help sell more automobiles.

I think LLMs will make vertical slice architecture more common using less abstraction. If juniors are mostly relying on LLMs then they will accept the long files it generates and not have the opportunity to learn abstractions.

This is just marketing that Anthropic is building the singularity.

What happens if you just keep vibe coding is? Does it whack-a-mole fix one area and break another?

He would tell you NFTs were AGIs if it might get you to buy them.

2 months ago: no limits. 1 month ago we had a leaderboard for whoever had the highest token spend not taking into account what was actually produced. This week: “everyone is using opus too much, just use it for planning.”