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drakeballew··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
The impact that the advanced ML models we are calling AI is underhyped.
drakeballew··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
I am not familiar with the source of this quote, but I don't disagree, it is just incredibly reductive. Gilles Deleuze him-/her-self was not born and did not live in a vacuum. They were influenced and mimetically reproduced ideas they were exposed to, like we all do. I don't find the point of this project meaningless myself. The opposite in fact. But the results are not accurate for anyone who has actually read any of these texts.
drakeballew··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
Don't believe Claude, let's put it that way.
drakeballew··on Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books
This is a beautiful piece of work. The actual data or outputs seem to be more or less...trash? Maybe too strong a word. But perhaps you are outsourcing too much critical thought to a statistical model. We are all guilty of it. But some of these are egregious, obviously referential LLM dog. The world has more going on than whatever these models seem to believe.

Edit/update: if you are looking for the phantom thread between texts, believe me that an LLM cannot achieve it. I have interrogated the most advanced models for hours, and they cannot do the task to any sort of satisfactory end that a smoked-out half-asleep college freshman could. The models don't have sufficient capacity...yet.

drakeballew··on "Vibe code hell" has replaced "tutorial hell" in coding education
Great writeup. As a beginner hobbyist, I have found AI to be extremely frustrating to work with much of the time, but extremely enjoyable and actually my best tutor/teacher when I use it the way the author describes, as a conceptual guide rather than an author.

Kind of an aside, I also think that ChatGPT is a great car-ride companion, and that the "conversation mode" that currently exist is pretty bad, primarily due to its response length limitation. If you're driving and verbally chatting with ChatGPT, having it only give you 500 word responses is infuriating because you can't really get into any level of depth without going in constant circles, which isn't a problem that text-based chats have to the same extent.

drakeballew··on Show HN: Pipedream 2.0 – AWS Lambda + Zapier alternative
Used this for a project recently - made things remarkably easier than writing all the code myself.
drakeballew··on Mark Zuckerberg speaking Chinese [video]
Here's a translation of what's being said. https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2
drakeballew··on Mark Zuckerberg Answers Q&A in Mandarin at Chinese University
This is a working translation of Zuck's Q&A at Tsinghua. Hope it helps those of you who are curious about what was said!

https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2

drakeballew··on Mark Zuckerberg Chinese Interview Translated to English
Link to the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8497233
drakeballew··on Zuckerberg Speaks Mandarin, Blows Everyone’s Mind
Here's a working translation of the Q&A, if there's not one already. https://medium.com/unbabel-news/b4cb8f223df2
drakeballew··on Unbabel – Translation for Zendesk
Growth Manager at Unbabel here. Yep, it's pretty straightforward. Just a couple tags and a few minutes to wait for our translator community to pick up the text and you're good to go. Customer satisfaction for translated tickets is consistent with satisfaction for tickets where two native speakers are communicating. Pretty cool stuff, imo. But I'm biased ;)