I used some check marks and x-es in a work chat, because it was easy to do, and so I could highlight the good and bad outcomes, and someone immediately asked me if I was using AI. I was caught totally flat-footed, because I hadn't used AI, but it looked VERY MUCH as though I had.

Well, I've enjoyed it. It's easier to set up an run from a virtual environment than Jupyter notebooks. That was a big problem I had for years.

Was this written by AI? This is just "I automated some things, use skills instead of scripts". Like, what did you automate? How much time did you save? How can I reproduce that?

I too found the article lacking, however I also feel we should have a new HN guideline to not talk about whether or not something was written by AI. It’s rather tiresome, and in this case probably wrong (AIs hate leaving things incomplete).

It’s a useful signal. As the web becomes more full of noise. I am not interested in having my time wasted reading an article that the purported author couldn’t even be bothered to write. If there is a new guideline, I’d propose that it be to not submit AI-generated content.

There is already an HN guideline against submitting AI-generated text.

> Don't post generated text or AI-edited text. HN is for conversation between humans.

I think it's fair to discuss whether a post violates the guidelines. I guess it would also be okay to flag in that case?

I think OP was rather suggesting that we have a guideline to avoid comments about whether something was written by AI or not.

Without fail, every comment section will have posts by people talking about how something is AI generated. Yeah we get it. It used to be novel to spot this, but now most people are pretty good at spotting it too and/or don't care.

It's about as meaningful as noting an article is written in English.

Well, my bad. I won't ask dumb questions like "was this written by AI".

HN should have an AI flag for posts. I find the AI content is far more tiresome then people pointing out its AI.

> This article was not written by AI.

:(

It seems content-free, at least at first glance, but I don't get LLM vibes from it.

100% I picked up shorthand to take notes quicker, but I'm still half-in/half-out of the conversation, mentally deciding what's important enough to jot down. This sounds like a great solution.

I went to an old engineering school for grad school, all the older buildings had this color scheme.

I typed in my dentist's full business name and location, "<name> family dentistry <city> <state>", and it was still #5 in the results. I still, out of habit, tapped the first link and called that number instead. It's ludicrous. In 2010 that would have been the top hit, next to the Wikipedia page on dentistry.

Yeah, and cameras changed art forever.

If you don't like change, then my recommendation is to steer clear of careers in either art or technology.

people still make clay pots and paint landscapes

Creativity is not what would expect out of the Renaissance

Can confirm.

I was consulting like this too, but my wife also had a full time corporate job. It all kind of ended with her team having layoffs around the same time that most of my clients figured out that they could use AI to do most of my work at a tiny fraction of my rate. I had built up a lot of experience working with oil and gas software, and I thought that was pretty solid, but it's hard to compete with $20 a month. Anyway, after all that, I found a stable job with good health insurance.

This spacing reminds me of Turing patterns, or activator/inhibitor systems, but I'm gobsmacked that this occurs in random matrices.