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I’m seeing this “theme” way too much of late. It feels like there’s a targeted scheme here. The shit isn’t magic, but it’s better to blame that on Gen Z than the tools themselves.

I, over the years, learned how to do everything through prepress. I don’t know how to get the plates on the press, but pretty much everything up to that, I can do.

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.

Layouter? This is the first time I’m hearing the term, and I’ve designed tens of thousands of newspaper pages.

This results in an endash.

Show me the intelligence, and I’ll accept your definition.

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This is an idiotic counter to the Neo. Microsoft is in a position it’s not faced before: Macs are cheaper than PCs. Offering a year of “free services” doesn’t change the fact that Surfaces start at more than twice what Apple has on offer.

What unique thing does a shoe company bring to “AI”?

ETA: We’re getting quality puns here; I’m just surprised it would be this thread.

You begged the question. You assumed “AI” use and then made a vibe-coding accusation without evidence.

Shh! Can’t you see this is a library?

It’s the old joke about how you get to Carnegie Hall: practice, practice, practice.

I wasn’t a great writer to start, but with editors guiding me, I came to be a nationally recognized writer. It’s a skill one develops. Maybe a few people spring forth from the womb ready to write, but must don’t. Additionally, I was told in high school to avoid writing; my voice wasn’t suited to regurgitating a teacher’s interpretation of literature. It took getting really pissed off at a national policy to find my voice.

And finding your voice is all well and good, but that doesn’t mean you’ve yet learned anything about the craft of writing. That first year was a crucible.

If you look further into the thread, he said he spent 200 hours coding this himself with the assistance of “AI” … look, I’m not really a coder, but give me 200 hours, and I can certainly pull off some shit. If you’re consulting an LLM like a book, I’m not really sure where the problem lies.

This just sounds like a professional using a tool.

Sure, but I’m going to guess KDE devs didn’t blindly accept the merge request.

Why are we assuming he didn’t and it must be “AI”?

Understanding the length of dashes aside, I think a big part of this backlash is a lot of people are terrible writers, and as such, the idea that another user can actually write is offensive to them. They have no way to fight back with words, so LLMs provide a tidy way to dismiss the whole piece as a hallucination.

I, too, have a couple of different writing styles, which stems from having been an opinion editor in college. What Beeple generally see on here is my columnist voice, but I am capable of the editorial Voice of God when it’s called for (it is rarely called for).

If it works, does it really matter if it was vibe-coded? Sometimes, people use tools correctly.

No offence taken. Even on Firefox this seems to be a regular issue on sites like hotel/travel booking. When you don’t buy anything, the back button sends you to a landing page with more options instead of operating as designed. Weird as it is, Google’s move might make life better for Firefox users. I’ve been conditioned to open everything in a new tab because of such shenanigans.