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LLMs have introduced a new form of polution: cognitive polution.

Abuse.

You can also get custom-made jeans and T-shirts. They fit better, you can pick the fabric, you can choose details, plus tailors tend to be fun to chat with. I could spend a whole day browsing the local fabric market chosing fabric for my next shirt.

I find it baffling, but custom-made shirts are cheaper than off-the-shelf.

Oh yes, when LLMs fail at translating they don't make a visible error. They fill up with inferred meaning. Translators can only be replaced by LLMs if there's no consequence attached to the meaning of what's being translated.

Meanwhile there's a 60's era fridge in our garage that still runs fine. For three generations it's reputed to keep beer at just the right temperature. To think that a machine like that would need an update... You'd never want to change something that works so well for so long.

Oh, and all the glueing it takes... I hate that part.

Perhaps more like snipers saying they don't need full-auto?

Also, don't use AI to translate into a language you can't read back. It glosses over assumptions you didn't know you made, and the output might not mean what you intended.

My eyes immediately move away from AI generated graphics. If it does manage to fool me, I get irritated and the thing you are trying to promote gets associated with that feeling. Make a poster with crayons if you will, but spare us from more cognitive polution.

I would date this beginning to 2013. That's around when Facebook feed ceased to be chronological. That's when everyone became rabid.

This cuts against you in a way that genuinely matters.

What about the vicinity of large or uphill streets inside a city? I am curious how the data compares with highways.

Windows 11 is what made me switch back to dual booting, after 4 years being content with WSL. Everything is slow, everything's GUIs have two versions and it nags endlessly for a "Windows Account".

> We used opcode charts like musicians used sheet music.

Maybe like musicians use chord charts? In this analogy, sheet music plays a better role as the program.

"Parity is what makes the replacement a drop-in rather than a migration."

It always reads like a 14 year old arguing.

"One, the path not taken, started with an Arduino or Arduino-like microcontroller. The other began with a Raspberry Pi or Pi-like computer-y thing. I went with the Pi, variously using both a Raspberry Pi Zero W and Zero 2 W."

Ok, so instead of bumping your clock +- one hour twice a year you preferred distro upgrades?

I am very curious: did you figure some of the books they were using?

I have almost the same setup. Plus a 3rd party app called "Material Files" to access it on my phone.

It's sad to have to unearth the very human line of thought in this article from the very foamy LLM slop.

No more LLM-written articles in HN!

It could have been a tweet, but it was a prompt instead.

Nowadays you don't just write an article. You ask Claude to write it for you.

"So the interesting question isn't whether personal hardware is coming. It's who gets to write the software that runs on it."

It's not that I don't like your point of view. It's that I can't stand AI slop.

I would avoid sentences of the form "It's not A. It's B." It reads very LLM-like.

I'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subject.

Bolt a magnet mount on the dashboard. Slap your phone.

Open youtube through a browser with uBlock origin, with this line in the filter:

m.youtube.com##.rich-section-content

This blocks the shorts bar. I also block the other algorithmic surfaces and have only the search bar available.

I have been using Emacs+git on termux on an Android phone for more than 5 years.

I don't even use a third party software-keyboard, I just use termux's special key bar. To set it up, add the following to ~/.termux/termux.properties

  extra-keys = [['TAB','CTRL','ALT','ESC','HOME','END','LEFT','UP','DOWN','RIGHT']]

This has been enough for using org mode in everyday life tasks, and I don't need to keep swapping keyboards.

> I’ve seen employees spend days drafting documents that a free tool like Mistral could generate in seconds, leaving them 30-60 minutes to review and refine.

What I have seen is employees spending days asking the model again and again to actually generate the document they need, and then submit it without reviewing it, only for a problem to explode a month later because no one noticed a glaring absurdity in the middle of the AI-polished garbage.

AI is the worst kind of liar: a bullshitter.