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New comment by latentsea in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

latentsea — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:07:19 +0000

I'll bet you "neon" is somewhere in those lyrics.

New comment by latentsea in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

latentsea — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:50:13 +0000

YouTube is excellent. Aside from my main account I have one that I mainly just use to listen to music, and I just surf the algorithm listening to whatever is in the recommend list, which is usually a handful of songs I've got on heavy rotation, but YouTube also tends to cycle back some old favorites, and some new gems. I just keep surfing it day in day out letting it take me where it will as one of two main ways I listen to music. I regularly find new gems pretty reliably. All the gems then go to my playlist in Spotify, which I listen to during my commute.

New comment by latentsea in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

latentsea — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:44:29 +0000

> There is personal expression in the lyrics.

Sometimes there is. Sometimes it's just made up shit with no real backing in the same way a lot of stories told in comedy routines are. Not all of it is genuine expression.

I love music and I frequently go to live shows, so the bar for me has kind of become "Can I go see this artist live, OR is it so good that I don't care that I can't?" If it passes that, I'll listen. I've found one AI generated song that has made it onto my top 100 favorite songs I've ever heard.

The thing that really shits me with AI music is when it outputs default ChatGPT sounding lyrics. There's certain tells and boy do they give me the ick.

New comment by latentsea in "The Eternal Sloptember"

latentsea — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:15:55 +0000

Well, auto-compaction is a thing in Claude Code now. Plus we have /goal command and some automated review stuff, so you can kinda just get it to loop until the automated reviews are satisfied and CI is passing. Does most of the heavy lifting.

New comment by latentsea in "The Eternal Sloptember"

latentsea — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:10:45 +0000

https://openai.com/index/harness-engineering/

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/harness-design-long-ru...

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-harnesses-fo...

These were some of the first major articles on it. It's becoming a popular topic, so there's more content on it all the time.

New comment by latentsea in "The Eternal Sloptember"

latentsea — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:05:15 +0000

Well he doesn't write CRUD apps, which plenty of us do, and with a decent harness, agents can do decent enough work on them.

New comment by latentsea in "The Eternal Sloptember"

latentsea — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:24:42 +0000

This shouldn't actually change virtually anything. We had this happen recently, and were able to rollback within minutes. Devs hand-coding stuff breaks things too. If you already have good observability, fast rollback processes, and feature flag new changes plus do % based rollouts to limit the blast-radius, then it's more or less the same.

New comment by latentsea in "The Eternal Sloptember"

latentsea — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:20:28 +0000

> Yes, I don't have anything important to say other than I 100% agree with this comment. AI in its current state is akin to Stack Overflow and Google on steroids, but from my experience, it doesn't do well building out full-scale applications other than perhaps some initial scaffolding.

We're currently using it to build out a full-scale application. It does as well as you care to coax into doing tbh. You have to invest heavily in harness engineering, and at least my experience has been that as you do that, the results improve.

New comment by latentsea in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

latentsea — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:10:35 +0000

Waiting for them to come down any day now. Been waiting since 2017.

New comment by latentsea in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

latentsea — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:20:32 +0000

I was impressed that I was able to take the same basic idea and apply it to anything that a Claude could construct a metric for. It's nice being able to just run /autoresearch and speed up your test suites, and shave time off your builds etc.

It's a decent tool to have in the toolbox.

New comment by latentsea in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

latentsea — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:44:59 +0000

Well that's not my problem, that's yours.

New comment by latentsea in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

latentsea — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:44:45 +0000

Not even remotely the same situation.

New comment by latentsea in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

latentsea — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:44:32 +0000

Tell me one for that specifically, or gtfo.

New comment by latentsea in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

latentsea — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:44:04 +0000

imagine the horror when after practicing the skill diligently for years this cognitive load never reduced beyond 2x ~ 3x that of your native language.

New comment by latentsea in "Canvas Just Sent a Dangerous Message to Hackers: Crime Pays If You Do It Right"

latentsea — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:41:25 +0000

Crime has always payed if you do it right... news at 11?

New comment by latentsea in "Fake building: Claude wrote 3k lines instead of import pywikibot"

latentsea — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:28:46 +0000

Maybe you didn't stop to consider the cognitive load of writing in a second language and how much delegating to AI reduces it.

New comment by latentsea in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

latentsea — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:28:06 +0000

Give this a watch - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2070649/

New comment by latentsea in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

latentsea — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:12:00 +0000

There's entire classes of people who base their employment centrally around an occupation that enables their worst vices. I'd wager there's a group of people who have no interest in becoming a teacher but put corporal punishment on the table and suddenly they're interested.

New comment by latentsea in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

latentsea — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:57:09 +0000

It seems to be the combination of both #1, #2 plus every tech bro billionaires attempts to "make the world a better place". An urban population full of disconnected people too mentally and financially worn out to procreate paradoxically appears to be our definition of success. What are we succeeding at? That, I haven't worked out.

New comment by latentsea in "AI slop is killing online communities"

latentsea — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:00:34 +0000

I do. No other friends and I hate Discord. It's sad, but some people are.