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Exactly. Not long ago, someone showed up on Hacker News who had, on his own, begun to rediscover the benefits of arithmetic coding. Naturally, he was convinced he’d come up with a brand-new entropy coding method. Well, no harm done and it’s nice that people study compression but I was surpised how easily he got himself convinced of a discovery. Clearly he knew very little.

Overall, I think this is a positive ”problem” to have :-)

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I've had several revolutionary discoveries during my time programming. In each case, after the euphoria had settled a bit, I asked myself: Why aren't we already doing this? Why isn't this already a thing? What am I missing?

And lo and behold, in each case I did find that it was either not novel at all or it had some major downside I had initially missed.

Still, fun to think about new ways of doing things, so I still go at it.

I mean, I think it would be a positive problem to have if people were actually learning things and growing, but... honestly this doesn't seem to be the case, what I see here is AI-generated marketing fluff about a "brand new format" that does something that off-the-shelf software already does, that doesn't actually fit the intended use-case, (all of which would be fine if it wasn't-) generated also by AI.

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