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>Khan Academy recently announced an overhaul of its product that provides students additional academic practice. Now Khanmigo is incorporated directly as a way students can get advice as they’re working through specific problems. A spokesperson said the organization made this change because “students were not seeking out Khanmigo’s help as much as we had hoped.”

Dear Lord, how is this any different from Microsoft sticking Copilot or Google sticking Gemini in every single offering? They're literally saying that people aren't using the chat bot enough so they're going to force it on people inside the product.

Would you trust an LLM to recognize a credit card number more reliably than a regular expression can?

I've been waiting so long for it to become commonplace for people to equate AI with The Emperor's New Clothes. Hopefully it gains steam.

What is with the constant use of "folks" in "queer folks"? Is it offensive to call them "queer people" now?

How odd, are you under the impression that LLMs have self-awareness or understand their own internal mechanisms? Do you know that you can tell an LLM almost anything and, absent a tool, it will tell you that you're correct? By your logic, why do we even experiment with skills, planning modes, harnesses, etc. when we could just ask the model what the best way to get it to produce information is?

This is unfair and dismissive of many roles. Coordination in a massive, technically complex company that has to adhere to laws and regulations is a critical role. I don't get why people shit on certain roles (I'm a SWE). Our PgMs reduce friction and help us be more productive and focused. Technical writers produce customer-facing content and code, and have nothing to do with supporting internal bureaucracy. There are arguments against this in Bullshit Jobs but do you think companies pay PgMs or HR employees hundreds of thousands of dollars a year out of the goodness of their own hearts? Or maybe they actually help the business?

"Python" or Pynchon?

If all you're doing is telling an LLM to do something in all caps and hoping it follows your instructions then it's not a "security model" at all. What a bizarre thing to rely on. It's like people have literally forgotten how to program.

At some FAANG companies, using AI is now part of the role profile against which your performance and compensation is assessed. So, yes, some engineers are technically getting a raise for using AI.

PTA did not make Everything Everywhere All at Once.

I realize this is a nuanced discussion, but could you clarify the predispositions you're referring to? I'm asking because there are people who blame obesity on a predisposition to hunger (obese people have a stronger hunger drive than thin people) but also people who blame it on a predisposition to weight gain, meaning that obese people can eat the same amount of food as thin people and still be obese. Are you saying GLP-1 drugs have refuted the idea of the latter?

Before people let their confirmation biases go wild about how terrible Gemini is, the original author was completely wrong. His files were never deleted: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/4586#issu.... He is a technically incompetent PM "vibe coding" who created a false story:

"Okay, my bad. I did find these files in the C:\ root upon a deeper search. Apologies for raising such an alarm about the file deletion, but the gemini CLI responses and the subsequent 'analysis' by gemini and claude really sent me down a bad rabbit hole. I should have searched my system more thoroughly. Thank you for flagging this @amensel

I think the bug is still valid from a user experience perspective, but obviously not nearly as severe."

Yes, "not nearly as severe" as in "never actually happened."

What is a "qtns"?

Seriously? Has the bar changed from "Google it" to "Read through several research papers and books" for someone to comment on how true something is generally accepted to be? And you're saying that the person who looked something up on Wikipedia is the problem?