iamflimflam1

The phrase “cutting your nose off to spite your face” springs to mind.

Nothing yet. Unfortunately it sometimes feels like our industry has been overrun by grifters and chancers.

I’m sure this has been a gradual and long decline. Maybe it even started with the dot com boom and accelerated with crypto. With AI it seems to have got worse.

The number of - “I did/invented Jev last year”, or, “here’s a version of Jev I vibed up last night” is getting a bit ridiculous.

Especially ridiculous is how the hacker news crowd seems to be taking these at face value…

There was one the other day with a compelling demo. But when you looked closely at it, it was feeding in the options with the word “best” on the option to pick and a fine tuned model designed to recognise that word…

We’re at the point now where this has to be a problem for the future.

They really don't match the performance of Jev. You can probably fine tune them to work well for a particular use case (assuming you have sufficient data).

But Jev is works pretty much out of the box without any fine tuning.

It’s frustrating that we can’t see the “thinking” - it’s like we only have access to half the conversation.

Probably important to call out this part of the post:

Zero-shot vs. Fine-tuning: Out-of-the-box base models score ~0.35 on the typed-decisions benchmark (near random). The 0.766 score is achieved by fine-tuning on the benchmark's train split. Treat Laya as a fast foundation model to specialize, not as an omniscient zero-shot oracle.

I got Claude (of course) to knock this up. I had all the bits ready to go as I'd been experimenting with Manic Miner already.

It actually works pretty well!

If that’s the reason, why don’t stripe say so when they block the account?

These things would be much easier if stripe were willing to actually explain what the issue is.

We can come up with all sorts of reasons - anti money laundering, concerns around charge back etc…

Why can’t stripe just say the reason?

One of the biggest problems is actually making sure the information needed is on the poster.

Times, dates, location, pricing, parking etc…

As he points out “it added a bunch of text…” now it’s one all the future designs. That’s great - is the text correct?

To be honest this was a problem before AI. People are not very good at communicating.

This reminds me of Terry Pratchett’s Sourcery.

The wizards don’t become sourcerers themselves - they become enthusiastic users of someone else’s sourcery. Their years of learning don’t protect them from mistaking access to power for mastery of it.

I don’t mind these companies scraping my content.

But for love of god, my blog changes at most every couple months. You don’t need to scrape it every few minutes.

Maybe the mortgage system is different in the US.

But if you have a 25 year term on a loan for a $500,000

Approx numbers:

5%: $2922 monthly, total paid: $876,885

10%: $4543 monthly, total paid: $1,353,000.

This really doesn’t make sense.

Higher interest rates mean the monthly payment is higher. You need to pay back the principal + the interest.

Everyone in the audience will recognise when someone is being a dick and will be praying for them to stop grandstanding.

“Great questions/point - would be great to pick it up with you later. Any other questions?”

To me, this is why we have regulation.

The CE mark in Europe and the UL mark in the US is supposed to provide a floor on quality.

That floor can be increased if we as a society decides that this is required.

You might be unwilling to pay for this increased quality, but you don't have a choice.

As far as I can see the linked report does not mention software at all. It is all about physical products.

I also reported it - twice - and was fobbed off.

The frustrating thing is, this is very easy for AI to detect. Just feed the image into any AI and it will tell you it is deceptive.

I was getting an advert that was obviously some scam software on YouTube mobile. The image looked like a system alert that storage was low. It was an obvious attempt to trick users.

https://bsky.app/profile/atomic14.bsky.social/post/3mnc7ws2h...

Perfectly fine according to google.

Social networking apps have morphed into content consumption apps.

When they were still social networking they were useful.

There is an argument that they made it too easy to still feel connected. What should have been a phone call to talk to someone got replaced by liking some post from them.

The internet has broken me. Whenever I see a question like this i now automatically expect it to be some marketing attempt. There will be a product/service/blog post somewhere in the comments.

They must have picked that habit up from Claude...

I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me.

His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...

It really depends - it’s trained on fairly limited data (things I could generate from Claude opus 5 and ChatGPT (pre-Astra).

It’s now quite hard to get non AI training data…

I did some experiments with very simple AI detection. You can get a very long way with simple ngram probabilities.

https://meatbag.atomic14.com/

https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/18/detecting-claude-with-le...

It’s very hard to make reliable though. Different models have different characteristics and you can prompt your way out of being detected.

Seems likely (to me) that he was probably using his company laptop and it was connected to the corp VPN most of the time.

I did this recently - https://www.atomic14.com/2026/08/03/twelve-dev-boards-from-o...

Instead of trying to vibe it all - I got Claude to write deterministic scripts for creating the boards.

And did this before trying to completely vibe it: https://www.atomic14.com/2025/07/12/vibing-hardware

Let me add my elite clone - https://harmless.atomic14.com

What support do you have in your job - are you in a team of product managers/owners.

Is there a tech/team lead on the project - what’s their opinion of the progress the team is making?

It sounds like you are taking all the delivery responsibility on your own shoulders.

Is this project really top priority with your management? It sounds like it might not be.