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>PS: And the kicker? Claude wrote this entire article too. I just provided the direction and feedback. The AI that helped me solve the Berghain Challenge also helped me tell you about it.

>Meta-collaboration all the way down.

Would've preferred to know this going in.

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Sorry, will move it up. For me it was, hey let’s loop it once more over the repo and let it write about it, more like an archeological dig to unearth the process, as I wasn’t involved in it, especially not algo decisions and later optimizations.

It’s funny, I immediately thought it was LLM but I was fairly confident it was ChatGPT. I suppose the styles are converging more than I thought: too long, lists, “not just x it’s y”, “here’s the X”…

I suspected that, but I couldn't read to the end. The article is confusing and all over the place.

The process was confusing. It took for sure at least 100 sessions, haven’t checked the logs, was running it in a VM. And every time it tries to build something while forgetting all of it and then reconstructing bits and pieces just to continue. The article was written at least over 3 context lengths. But it does reconstructs well the iteration on the side of an AI agent.

I mean, it only takes a few paragraphs of filler text, hyperbole, "catchy" juxtapositions, and loose logical threads to raise suspicions.

But yeah, I would also like these two minutes of my life back.

Well, as someone who has also generated some text with LLMs, at least I learned that it's still possible to generate truly excruciating stuff with the "right" model and prompt.

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