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New comment by jdauriemma in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

jdauriemma — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:22:36 +0000

I'm curious about LLM adoption by faculty. Is it possible that lesson plans and/or slides are being vibe-produced by professors/TAs, potentially reducing quality of instruction?

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

jdauriemma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:29:49 +0000

There are limits to the web audio API :) but I did conform to the known waveforms of the trombone when setting the synthesizer values. The frequencies and proportions of the slides and partials are very precise!

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

jdauriemma — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:10:36 +0000

I think you'll enjoy this: an acoustically-accurate trombone in the web browser. https://github.com/bignimbus/trombone.js

New comment by jdauriemma in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jdauriemma — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:43:13 +0000

Can you share a source? Of course the top 5% of _earners_ would pay more, but that's not necessarily the same crew as the top 5% in net worth. And 5% is a large share of the population. I'd be more interested in the top 1% of 1% in terms of wealth.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

jdauriemma — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:08:47 +0000

Whenever I see a document with horizontal rules between headers and the blues and purples that Claude Cowork adds to .docx files, I sigh.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

jdauriemma — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:06:51 +0000

To that I'd add:

* an abundance of ordered and unordered lists

* paragraphs are <= 3 sentences

* _it's not X, it's Y_: "The goal is not to let AI choose for you. The goal is to build a sharper rejection vocabulary." "The biggest decisions are not formatting decisions. They are directional decisions."

* a lot of

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that
* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."
AI-generated essays are listicles at heart

New comment by jdauriemma in "Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?"

jdauriemma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:36:39 +0000

I have seen something similar in a site I work on

Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?

jdauriemma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:23:09 +0000

For those of you deploying llms.txt in your site root, have you seen any surprising traffic patterns?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444533

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

You're all staff engineers now

jdauriemma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:16:30 +0000

Article URL: https://jdauriemma.com/programming/youre-all-staff-engineers-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47416932

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdauriemma in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

jdauriemma — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:51:21 +0000

+1, this is my use case as well

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

jdauriemma — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:09:02 +0000

The RFC is a joke, if you couldn't tell. Those are quotes from the text :)

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

jdauriemma — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:39:18 +0000

Next time you post a HN comment, try audibly sighing or pausing for 137 milliseconds first?

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard

jdauriemma — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:37:55 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47323891

Points: 134

# Comments: 126

I want Artificial Competence, not more Artificial Intelligence

jdauriemma — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:29:04 +0000

Article URL: https://jdauriemma.com/programming/i-want-artificial-competence-not-more-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311249

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdauriemma in "No right to relicense this project"

jdauriemma — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:32:37 +0000

> "Training" an LLM ist not the same as training a human being. It a metaphor. Its confusing the save icon with an actual floppy disk.

Maybe? But the design of the floppy disk is for data storage and retrieval per se. It can't give you your bits in a novel order like an LLM does (by design). From what I can tell in this case, the output is significantly differentiated from the source code.

New comment by jdauriemma in "No right to relicense this project"

jdauriemma — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:08:13 +0000

This is interesting and I'm not sure what to make of it. Devil's advocate: the person operating the AI also was "trained with the code," is that materially different from them writing it by hand vs. assisted by an LLM? Honestly asking, I hadn't considered this angle before.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

jdauriemma — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:27:49 +0000

Better than 90% of the slop that gets ladled into the front page, bravo. The world needs more Clock Simulator-like projects.

New comment by jdauriemma in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

jdauriemma — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:36:34 +0000

It’s AI booster fanfic, but it’s well-written so kudos. The charts are slop though.

I want Artificial Competence, not more Artificial Intelligence

jdauriemma — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jdauriemma.com/programming/i-want-artificial-competence-not-more-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103672

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jdauriemma in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

jdauriemma — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:45:28 +0000

This team is at Stanford, unless I’m reading the article incorrectly. Still awful that the US pulled out of WHO.

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New comment by jdauriemma in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

New comment by jdauriemma in "What I've learned about the trombone"

New comment by jdauriemma in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."AI-generated essays are listicles at heart

New comment by jdauriemma in "Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?"

Ask HN: Any interesting traffic patterns in your llms.txt?

You're all staff engineers now

New comment by jdauriemma in "ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did"

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

New comment by jdauriemma in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard

I want Artificial Competence, not more Artificial Intelligence

New comment by jdauriemma in "No right to relicense this project"

New comment by jdauriemma in "No right to relicense this project"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Show HN: Clocksimulator.com – A minimalist, distraction-free analog clock"

New comment by jdauriemma in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

I want Artificial Competence, not more Artificial Intelligence

New comment by jdauriemma in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

breaking up the prose, if you can call it that
* setup statement, then a colon, then a punchline: "AI and LLMs have changed one thing very quickly: competent output is now cheap."
AI-generated essays are listicles at heart