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this discussion is so stupid. no one who isn't a moron is offloading all work and thought to LLMs. no one who isn't a moron is seriously afraid of their thinking and learning skill "atrophying", whatever tf that means.

it's clear that LLMs are unique in that you actually do have the capability to turn your brain off and blindly trust whatever it does for you. but it should be equally clear that that's a stupid approach. people will still use their minds, and this use gets empowered with proper use of LLMs. it's that simple. ffs, we take the fact that they pass the Turing Test routinely for granted now. let's not forget that this technology is legitimately incredible. it stands to reason that you are seriously handicapping yourself by not trying to use it.


Came here to write something like that his. It’s so sad we still have these stupid conversations with people thinking black and white in 2026.

but there are a lot of them

Now I gotta hear these four coworkers' opinions on other things


It's only a matter of time before ChatGPT starts recommending penis enhancement pills or tells me hot MILFs are in my area.


> hot MILFs in my area

https://youtu.be/FBSam25u8O4


> security product

> glass in the name


I had a team mate propose a new security layer for an industrial device which he wanted to call "Eggshell"


We shall call it Achilles, as Claude Mythos is its only weakness.


game recognize game


1-6 years can't be realistic can it? does someone have a better estimate of how long this would take?


50-100 years default, 25-50 with Plan Mode, and down to ~10 if you use Opus 4.6 Max


The whole reason for this project is to show that a few years is in fact realistic.


my skepticism is really strong but I'm not knowledgeable enough to really be able to do anything about it... have you seen any valid critique or analysis of your project?


my cat personally wants to be between me and the monitor right in front of my face. so maybe designing a desk with like, a dip or hole or something where the cat can go into would be good


My take is that at some point, we will need ID verification online in general to prove you are human. Otherwise it's just chaos out here identity-wise and will get worse like you point out.


Humans can still use LLM for posting.


It is not about the humans who use AI for posting!

I believe it is more about the bot accounts that gets overwhelmingly annoying... and pollutes this and other places like reddit or other such discussion forums...

Some kind of a verification and vetting needs to happen for account creation.


I agree. But I am also sick and tired of humans prompting some LLM about the points that they want to say and having the LLM generate the response. Online communities will never be the same again.


thank god there's an annoying fucking cat in the way of what i'm trying to read


Thank god for noscript. Did see or hear any of that and dumped the text-only version of the article and HN discussion right to my local hard drive for off-line reading.


Move your mouse and the cat will follow


On mobile the cat sits in the middle of the screen and does not respond to touch input. The author has been told about the distracting elements and refused to acknowledge it.


If I tap somewhere else the cat goes there. I like the website, even though some design choices don't follow UX best practices.


That has changed in the last couple days.


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