StrandedKitty's comments

StrandedKitty | 4 months ago | on: "ChatGPT said this" Is Lazy

I think it's fine to not disclose it. Like, don't you find "Sent from my iPhone" that iPhones automatically add to emails annoying? Technicalities like that don't bring anything to the conversation.

I think typically, the reason people are disclosing their usage of LLMs is that they want offload responsibility. To me it's important to see them taking responsibility for their words. You wouldn't blame Google for bad search results, would you? You can only blame the entity that you can actually influence.

StrandedKitty | 5 months ago | on: Be Worried

You are describing Discord. Small, gated, heavily moderated by actual humans, and often invite-only communities on specific topics.

StrandedKitty | 6 months ago | on: Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated

Does it even fall into "AI-generated" category? GitHub Copilot has been around for years, I certainly remember using it long before the recent AI boom, and at that time it wasn't even thought of as any kind of a breakthrough.

And at this point it's not just a productivity booster, it's as essential as using a good IDE. I feel extremely uncomfortable and slow writing any code without auto-completion.

StrandedKitty | 7 months ago | on: How can AI ID a cat?

For some reason I thought this article would explain how to ID a specific cat, that is basically facial recognition for cats.

Is this even something that's possible with current tech? Like, surely cats have some facial features that can be used to uniquely identify them? It would be cool to have a global database of all cats that users would be able to match their photos against. Imagine taking a picture of a cat you see on the street, and it immediately tells you the owner's details and whether it's missing.

StrandedKitty | 7 months ago | on: Sign in with Google in Chrome

There's a big upside to Google One Tap. It makes users sign up for your product like crazy.

I recently added it to a SaaS web app I'm working on, and the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight. You don't necessarily have to create an account to use the minimal functionalty of our app, but after signing up you do get some perks, and we get a way to communicate with the user through email. So I think it can be beneficial for both parties.

StrandedKitty | 7 months ago | on: Programming vehicles in games

What do you think the purpose of extensions is? They enrich the base spec. If your renderer can't handle an extension it will simply ignore it.

StrandedKitty | 8 months ago | on: How I lost my backpack with passports and laptop

> sleeping on phenibut is very restful

Is this just you subjective experience or is it backed by some data or research? For me personally, sleeping after phenibut doesn't feel healthy at all -- in fact I often end up sleeping for 12+ hours unless I have something important to do in the morning, and it's extremely hard to get out of bed every time.

StrandedKitty | 8 months ago | on: AI cameras change driver behavior at intersections

Here in the NL I'd say it's at least €3600 if you have zero experience. This is my estimation for both theory & practical parts based on my own experience, current rates, and what little statistics I could find. Often much more if you fail and have to take more lessons.

StrandedKitty | 8 months ago | on: How to not pay your taxes legally, apparently

From what I understand, you are taxed on the unrealized gains from your assets, so you are effectively paying ~2% of the value of all your assets every year. Even if you simply own a stake at a startup, you still have to pay the wealth tax regardless of whether your stake ends up having any real value at all (most likely it won't).

StrandedKitty | 9 months ago | on: Show HN: Patio – Rent tools, learn DIY, reduce waste

Please add more contrast to the black nav panel at the bottom. It took me like a minute to spot it because it was lost in the visual mess that the article previews create. At first I thought all this website does is article and video aggregation because all I saw was a list of categories and an endless feed.

StrandedKitty | 10 months ago | on: Chomsky on what ChatGPT is good for (2023)

Surely it just reasoned that you made a typo and "autocorrected" your riddle. Isn't this what a human would do? Though to be fair, a human would ask you again to make sure they heard you correctly. But it would be kind of annoying if you had to verify every typo when using an LLM.

StrandedKitty | 10 months ago | on: The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection

> Follow-up analysis of the first experimental results revealed a marked positional bias with LLMs tending to prefer the candidate appearing first in the prompt

Wow, this is unexpected. I remember reading another article about some similar research -- giving an LLM two options and asking it to choose the best one. In their tests LLM showed clear recency bias (i.e. on average the 2nd option was preferred over the 1st).

StrandedKitty | 11 months ago | on: Show HN: I built Lovable for text bots and mini apps

It's pretty popular in Eastern Europe and Russia. In Ukraine railroad tickets are sold through a Telegram chat bot.

I think the main reason people prefer making chat bots in Telegram is that it's completely free and unlimited, i.e. you can create any number of chat bots, send any number of messages with attached files of any size. Their API is very easy to use too.

StrandedKitty | 11 months ago | on: Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation

In the short term yes, but why would you as an end user of lovable and similar tools prefer expensive Supabase? If you already have an AI developer at your disposal you might as well make it figure out how to properly set up and maintain AWS, right? Maybe it can't do it now -- too complicated because there's no simple AI-accessible interface, and LLM models are simply not smart enough yet, but I imagine it will change soon.

StrandedKitty | 1 year ago | on: Sell yourself, sell your work

This is what I was thinking too when I was a child. But now that I got to see how adults actually act I feel like a lot of these concerns related to selling are irrational.

If you have a new product and you want to market it to a wide audience then you have nothing to worry about because you have nothing to lose. Being "ignored into oblivion" doesn't mean that you can't try again, and nobody knows you so you won't attract a mob. The world is so vast that no matter what you do and how hard you try to sell something, your actions will affect very few people and leave only a barely noticeable footprint.

Maybe this is exactly what the problem is -- we now have means to connect with the whole world through the internet, but we tend to treat these connections quite conservatively as if it's our close circle. It's not acceptable to make yourself hated by a friend, but I think it's absolutely fine if it's thousands of strangers instead as long as it's done for what feels like a good cause.

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