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New comment by ako in "AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows"

ako — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:09:38 +0000

Flipped classroom method?

New comment by ako in "Don't paste the AI, please"

ako — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:24:26 +0000

This is not counter collaboration, collaboration can also benefit from the use of AI.

New comment by ako in "Don't paste the AI, please"

ako — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:16:11 +0000

I see it differently: if you’re not willing to consider how you could be better/faster/more productive with AI, you’re unwilling to adapt to the future, and not flexible enough. You’re going to slow down your employer. Most business text does not benefit from a user spending time on phrasing it, it’s not literature.

New comment by ako in "Don't paste the AI, please"

ako — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:07:48 +0000

As I said the response of AI is very much based on the input and context i give it. It’s not like everyone gets exactly the same answers from AI. Ai is a tool that I control.

Also, if the response of AI is sufficient, what is the added value of you spending more time on it?

New comment by ako in "Don't paste the AI, please"

ako — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:36:39 +0000

If the response of AI is sufficient, why would i retype it in my own words? Just a waste of time. Most of what i have AI generate is based on my words and input anyways. I'll often write a draft note, and then have AI generate multiple formats, e.g., technical wording, marketing wording, management wording. Almost like taking raw content and using AI to rephrase it for specific channels.

New comment by ako in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

ako — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:48:30 +0000

Why are you so distracted by style? I see it too, it could be improved, it might be improved, but I don’t care as long as it get shit done. And it does, tons of shit gets done. And the communication is usually more informative than how coworkers document their work. Can it be improved? Yes. Does that mean I can’t use it? No.

New comment by ako in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

ako — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:46:48 +0000

Exactly, the German autobahn is also awesome. /s

New comment by ako in "Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates"

ako — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:58:36 +0000

Kitesurfing is so last decade, this decade is all about wingfoiling and parawinging.

New comment by ako in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

ako — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:09:33 +0000

Pagerank is just a popularity contest, doesn't say anything about trust. AI probably does a better job determining trustworthyness than pagerank.

New comment by ako in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

ako — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:49:23 +0000

Maybe, but it's reality. Not too long ago the rule would be "if it doesn't show up in google, it doesn't exist". Today agents+LLMs are better browsers than Chrome/Safari/Firefox/... If a webpage does not show up in an LLM it may as well not exist.

New comment by ako in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

ako — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:09:36 +0000

The best way to read the information on the internet today is via a LLM.

Just like you don't process raw data in a data warehouse or datalake by looking at tables, you use a SQL or BI tool, to process all the information on the internet you need to tool to digest it for you. For many, today that tool is a LLM chat interface or agent.

New comment by ako in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

ako — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:27:28 +0000

Go value proposition for me, when developing with Claude code: 1) fast compilation times, faster iterations, 2) user friendly to install, one single binary per platform, 3) feels safer than JavaScript/typescript, which have too many npm vulnerabilities. Go comes with more functionality included, less need to use 3rd party libraries.

New comment by ako in "Commodification of Intelligence: Good, Bad, and Ugly Circular AI Deals"

ako — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:57:32 +0000

We’re way beyond that, LLMs are used for reasoning - plan, do, check, act. They will define a goal, decide how to get the info needed (run a script for example), and use these new insights to adjust the plan. This is way beyond just retrieving info from a knowledge base.

And where the info comes from (scraped, or classroom books) does not influence if something is intelligent, Humans are also trained on pre-existing knowledge.

Real intelligence is being able to use your stored knowledge to solve new problems, which both humans and agents+LLMs can do to different levels.

New comment by ako in "DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs"

ako — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:58:04 +0000

Exactly, and a dsl gives you many options and tools to make the llm more reliable: a grammar enables deterministic syntax checker, error messages injecting correct syntax into the context, linting, terse examples in the skills for token optimization, and even the option to add the grammar to the llm to help it decide what next tokens are acceptable.

New comment by ako in "DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs"

ako — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:30:25 +0000

For open source llms you can give your grammar to the llm to help it decide what valid next tokens it can generate.

New comment by ako in "Big Tech Has Suddenly Flipped on the AI Jobs Wipeout Scenario"

ako — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:59:48 +0000

They don't need to, they can use tools to validate their assumptions.

New comment by ako in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

ako — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:55:25 +0000

I think the hard part is not the syntax itself but the shift in thinking: instead of procedural state manipulation expressing the desired end result in declarative set based relation algebra. I see developers struggling with breaking down complex queries in (inline) views / CTEs, thinking they need parameters, when things can be expressed as a queries on another query. Complaining about the lack of reusability, but not knowing about views.

New comment by ako in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

ako — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:28:15 +0000

Time to start using plsql, ADA with first class support for embedded SQL.

New comment by ako in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

ako — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:10:25 +0000

What is an original image? A good photographer can also create a completely different impression. And it's hard to get rules applied, suing is often too expensive, for consumers, and governments need to reduce costs, so don't have the funding. It will not be enforceable enough that people wont try tampering with their picture.

If you make it a technical solution, e.g., browser plugin, it become an economic opportunity that can create money instead of cost money.

New comment by ako in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

ako — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:54:25 +0000

Instead of fighting the use of AI for home interior picture, it might be more useful to have an AI that can correct the fabricated images. If the listing includes room sizes, an AI should be able to give you more realistic images. Maybe a browser plugin that makes all content honest?