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New comment by bcrosby95 in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

bcrosby95 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:27:55 +0000

The problem with at least ChatGPT is no matter what personality you set it still reads like a smug asshole trying to sound smart. You can just pick different flavors of smug asshole.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Professor's invisible prompt trap catches 32/35 students cheating with AI"

bcrosby95 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:58:11 +0000

Students usually don't have adequate experience or judgement to make good employees. AI being good at satisfying a professor doesn't mean AI is good enough to satisfy an employer.

So whether it bodes well or not depends upon whether that gap exists or not. It's probably job specific.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

bcrosby95 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:53:37 +0000

For what it's worth, your last statement is why react always felt off to me.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

bcrosby95 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:45:44 +0000

Yeah, shit's re.... dumb I mean. It's interesting we're still allowed to use dumb this way.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

bcrosby95 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:35:37 +0000

When it comes to political statements everything is opposite day.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

bcrosby95 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:32:33 +0000

I've come to realize that the smarter LLMs get, the less they understand the point of abstractions.

I've been using it for a unity game for the past few years. Nowadays it will go sleuthing into packages and assembly and make decisions based upon what it sees there.

It will make comments about why it's doing something based upon a function call 3 methods deep.

God forbid any of these details change in a minor version update.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Claude Opus 5"

bcrosby95 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:44:28 +0000

Most humans aren't.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Claude Opus 5"

bcrosby95 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:36:10 +0000

Give the model judgement

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Claude Opus 5"

bcrosby95 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:33:33 +0000

Yes, white collar people are not allowed to express concerns about losing their career. I'm sure no blue collar person ever did.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

bcrosby95 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:19:32 +0000

I have a pile of ideas and not enough time to get to them all, but one of them is the opposite direction. Embrace Discord, and build a MUD whose social systems are funneled through it.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

bcrosby95 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:00:07 +0000

The AI seems to put it's internal reasoning into comments. I have to keep telling it to knock it the fuck off.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Why I am not going to buy a computer"

bcrosby95 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:59:03 +0000

If someone writes content with AI, I don't exactly see a problem with people using AI to synthesize the content. It's a good default.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers"

bcrosby95 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:41:30 +0000

People seem pretty sour on big tech in general, maybe it's because, I don't know...

Data centers being directly tied to increases in our power bills.

Or CEOs talking about how they're going to get to fire everyone because of AI.

Or social media raising the political temperature.

Or all of them combined. Tech has never been so intolerable across the board.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

bcrosby95 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:15:09 +0000

With AI it should take like a weekend.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

bcrosby95 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:10:36 +0000

No, AWS won't go out of business, afterall, people still use IBM mainframes.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

bcrosby95 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:02:32 +0000

I don't know. There's a lot of instances where the first movers lose because they were a bit wrong and others learned from their mistakes.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes"

bcrosby95 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:55:46 +0000

A website flaming out and dying in the face of unusual traffic is a perfectly reasonable business decision. These "witty" comments are effectively self owns.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "GPT-5.6"

bcrosby95 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:04:14 +0000

Thinking models think through talking, don't reveal that talking, then answer by again thinking through talking. It's kinda funny in a way.

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"

bcrosby95 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:08:10 +0000

Writing specs validates the translation is being done properly? Was this written by an LLM?

New comment by bcrosby95 in "Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys"

bcrosby95 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:27:27 +0000

Howso?