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Does that work?

It works really well. I've been using this prompt to find spelling and grammar errors for about a year now: https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...

"fix english" is the prompt i wish to turn into a button

> I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs

This is the big one for me. Small toy website someone has made as a passion project used to be the big draw of HN for me but now I just a assume it's a vibe-coded mess that'll 404 in 7 months.


> If I had fewer orders, I would work more to increase the quality of my product

Really? Because most of the time what you see is huge layoffs and gutting the company's assets.


> Workers ultimately have a job because they are useful to managemen

Workers have a job because their labour produces value


Eh - sometimes people get hired in bulk to show growth and then get assigned valueless work, or work not necessarily as valuable.

Both statements can be true.


> sometimes people get hired in bulk to show growth

Um no, this doesn't happen. Nobody is paying useless people just to "show growth".


Of the 8.1 billion humans alive, 3 billion of them have jobs (approximately). You are speaking for every single last one of them, that they weren't hired for some office political reason and every single last one of them is useful at their job? I haven't spoken to all of them, but I find that hard to believe.


The fact that you have to invoke "every single last one" of 8 billion people to demonstrate the possibility of this happening is pretty telling.


Oh you know this for an irrefutable fact, now?


Yes. It's the kind of thing stated by people who have never run a business.


You seem less deductive in your reasoning than desired for a good faith discussion, and pathological in your baseless accusations.

For example, I have run my own business before I hired people.


Good faith discussion? Your reply to me was "Oh you know this for an irrefutable fact, now?". What discussion is there to be had from a sarcastic quip that deliberately misses the point?

If you want to good faith discussion, address the substance of my comment.


.....

Are you an llm trained to troll?


> sloppy thinking and sloppy arguments

If you think this is the result it's probably just because you're not used to discussing political theory. Within academic spaces these discussions are very well developed and nuanced. HN people like yourself aren't very used to being left behind but there are experts that understand what you don't.


That's not a reliable source.


> one to do the work and submit PRs to your repo

Have we not seen loads of examples of terrible AI generated RPs every week on this site?


Because nobody posts the good ones. They're boring, correct, you merge them and move on to the next one. It's like there's a murder in the news every day but generally we're still all fine.

Don't assume that when people make fun of some examples that there aren't thousands more that nobody cares to write about.


I don't think the problem was a lack of Elon Musk's involvement.


Polling seems to suggest you're wrong.


> That’s fine, vent. But don’t confuse that with discussion.

The idea that discussion should be dispassionate and analytical is just wrong. All that does is hides biases. Discussion should be honest; often that means being messy and angry.


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