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These comments don't help much. AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.


I'd wish we come to a day where people would just post the prompt. Then I can decide what story to generate from it.


I'm still planning to add a "AI-edited version" toggle to my blog. Not that it would do anything, because people wouldn't click it anyway.


Look I don't like to see a wall of AI slop as much as the next person (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551462), but "just post the prompt" is also too dismissive. AI had access to information that we don't have and all you see here is probably a compilation of multiple prompts, edits and various sources (like author's notes) for context.

We can adjust our expectations for people to take some time to make the output theirs.

OTOH, and this is me arguing against myself, maybe this is not too different than the million web sites we saw using the unmodified default bootstrap theme.

I guess my opinions as well as the response of the community are still evolving.


- It's called "writing in bullet points"

- Normies frown upon it


They don't! Before AI, people complain about long emails and what not. The literally preferred to read short ones.


The problem is that people who are bad writers have trouble understanding that AI writes worse than they do


you clearly have never read a 1000 word text written by me (/s, but only partially)


Honestly I would prefer to read a long text from a human that is badly written than a LLM version. It’s fine to not write well


> AI is here, not everybody can write well, AI is gonna be used.

I don't know about you, but I'd love to read a fascinating story written by a relatively poor writer. But if they can't be bothered to write, I assume the story can't be that good.


But this isn't a story, literature, or a fancy piece of art; it's merely a technical blog post that discloses a security vulnerability. Here, the writing serves only as a vehicle to convey a message. Once you've received it, its purpose has been fulfilled. I would agree with you if the writing were an important part of the message, but here it is not. Not everybody can write well, and this guy clearly had something to tell, and that is what matters.


> But this isn't a story, literature, or a fancy piece of art; it's merely a technical blog post that discloses a security vulnerability. Here, the writing serves only as a vehicle to convey a message. Once you've received it, its purpose has been fulfilled.

I disagree wholeheartedly. I'm not a machine. I'm a thinking, feeling, human being.

As a mathematician, I can certainly appreciate precise formulations. They have their place. But this is not that place.

> Not everybody can write well, and this guy clearly had something to tell, and that is what matters.

I'm sadenned that he wouldn't tell it in his way. I'd much rather read his own (poorly written?) words.


Google hasn't handled this well, it is obvious.

But I have to say that I never understood the Antigravity IDE. I much prefer using Gemini CLI in combination with vscode. It works like a charm. Now, I'll do the same with Antigravity CLI and vscode. It works fine.


Possibly a bug, but the change in usage quotas on my AI Pro plan going from Gemini CLI to Antigravity CLI was a massive drop. I was kicked off after around 30 minutes using the smallest model available (3.5 Flash).

If they offered 3 Flash (or 3.1 Flash Lite too but might be hoping for too much) with comparable usage limits then the transition to Antigravity CLI wouldn't have bothered me much at all.


Same. It’s really been a nothing bar for me with this cutover. I feel for the IDE people, but now I call agy vs gemini…life goes on. 3.1 Pro model still works perfectly for me and my needs, if anything I’m finding the agy cli much more responsive and stable so far


There is also the possibility that the article when through the hands of the company's communication department which has writers that probably write at LLM level.


Why not using the actual land line? I still have one. My 13 year old son, who has no phone, uses it and it works. I'm just curious.


TinCan owner here. The issue with landlines in my experience is that they quickly become overwhelmed with spam calls. That and the ability to lock down the phone to just a few numbers is the appeal.


Mine, in Spain, is surprisingly free of spam. I receive spam on my mobile phone, which is often blocked by Android, but I don't receive spam on my landline. Strange, isn't it?


Depends on the country, but landlines are no long available for new customers and the cables are actively being removed.


There are still VoIP services that function essentially the same. I switched to that recently because the real POTS service had been jacked up in price a crazy amount, probably because we were grandfathered into even having it since the company website didn't even seem to offer it anymore.


Well, I'm sure my landline is not a landline anymore, I'm sure it is some sort of VoIP system, but it doesn't matter, it is a phone with a number, that doesn't leave the living room.


I had to read this text in order to understand what this tool does, because I could not know from the website (without watching a video). You should use Spine to improve your website. ;-)


Indeed. I always used Emacs, but not, thanks to AI agents, Emacs is better than ever, as it can write the lisp I can't write, and it can read the docs I don't have the time to read.


I’ve left social networks behind and returned to RSS, and I couldn't be happier. I’m using Delta Chat as an interface with FeedsBot, so the whole setup feels just like Telegram channels, but without Pavel Durov reading everything. It’s been a great experience so far.


I'm using KDE Akregator. It's nice to have a consistant interface for checking the headlines, and only opening web pages to give them a closer look.


This is the right approach. I exported my 25k Evernote notes to markdown (I'm using Emacs' Howm mode) and I use Codex CLI to ask questions about my notes. It is great and powerful!


I've been using Delta Chat with a lot of success. It is easy, it works, bots are easy and the concept is improving. They even plan to have forward secrecy. So, give it a try. If you explored it a long time ago, try again, many things have improved in that ecosystem.


Yeah it's a lot more "just works" than Matrix, still some limitations but improving quickly.


With Delta Chat nowadays you can easily host your own federated and secure chat service. It is great.


Absolutely. I got mine setup in less than 20 min.

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