If you're paid by the hour, then does it really matter if you have to refactor stuff? If it takes a long time to do then it'll be more expensive for your employer.

Does the project manager get paid more by the hour to refactor a house than to build one?

I love it. I do plant tissue culture as hobby and really see plants as the living systems that they are.

Cool, can you provide some more info on how you got in to this, recommended dabbling strategy and what sort of ROI you're getting from time invested? I have been getting in to botany pretty heavily already.

I've always had a passion for carnivorous plants and it was inevitable that I would end up doing tissue culture by keeping on digging deeper in the obsession.

The biggest ROI is fulfilling my childhood dream of having a ton of my favourites rare plants. Then I sell my extra ones on my webshop, but it doesn't make that much money as I am not focusing on expensive varieties, just the ones I like.

You can check out plants in jars on YouTube, or use a LLM to get into it. Some LLMs might not want to answer you because they think you're trying to do something dangerous... Claude has been flagging a lot of my questions.

Ahh, succulents! Happened upon a succulent show around 2 years ago. Wow. Never imagined how many oddball shapes were out there, it's a real scene. Some of those combo monstrosities belong in sci-fi! I can see how people get in to it.

Exactly my experience too, to the point that I kinda ended up only using DDG for its bang features and never really do real searches with it... It's especially bad if I want local results for my country in my language.

I feel like the only reason I use Obsidian is because of the "real time" markdown editor. If I could have this in Zed (not split view between source and render) I would probably not used Obsidian anymore.

I've been using obsidian for about 3 years now and the only thing I've used are daily notes. I'm unsure where I should go from that.

Definitely this, my hobby is already filled with a ton of sloppy vibe coded apps that all do the same thing very badly with awful UI/UX. They all ask for a monthly subscription and, surprise, nobody uses them.

Meanwhile the hand crafted app that does the same thing gets put in the same bucket as the AI slop ones and is ignored.

I roll my eyes every time I see a coworker post a very a long message full of emojis, obviously generated by a LLM with 0 post editing. Even worse when it's for social communication such as welcoming a new member in the team. It just feels so fake and disingenuous, I might even say gross.

I don't understand how they can think it's a good idea, I instantly classify them as lazy and unauthentic. I'd rather get texts full of mistakes coming straight out of their head than this slop.

Some people legitimately have no idea that others recognize and are offput by llm output.

Also, i know a lot of non-native English speakers that use AI tools to "correct things". Because of the language barrier these people especially are less likely to ever be able to recognize the specific llm tone that precipitates.

And that's really the insidious thing about these tools - if you can't do the work yourself then you can't really verify the LLM output either.

Yes the same outraged users were totally fine with giving Discord all their personal conversations.

Exactly, I'm not going to waste my time reading this AI generating post that's basically promoting itself.

What I really wonder, is who the heck is upvoting this slop on hackernews?

Another good example, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860845

Articles like these should be flagged, and typically would be, but they sometimes appear mysteriously flag-proof.

I did because I want to see a critical discussion around it. I'm still trying to figure out if there's any substance to OpenClaw, and hyperbolic claims like this is a great way to separate the wheat from the chaff. It's like Cunningham's Law.

It only has 11 points. It just got caught in the algorithm. That's all.

But I see these kinds of post every day on HN with hundreds of upvotes. And it's a thousand times worse on Reddit.

The hundreds of billions of dollars in investment probably have something to do with it. Many wealthy/powerful people are playing for hegemonic control of a decent chunk of the US economy. The entire GDP increase for the US last year was due to AI and by extension data centers. So not only the AI execs, but every single capitalist in the US whose wealth depends on line going every up year. Which is, like, all of them. In the wealthiest country on the planet.

So many wealthy players invested the outcome, and the technology for astroturfing (LLMs) can ironically be used to boost itself and further its own development

I was thinking the exact same thing earlier today. I think you're right. They have so much at stake, infinite money and the perfect technology to do it.

As a francophone, I can tell you that the vast majority doesn't.

Among software developers, the vast majority does.

definitely not at a native level...

Why are you nitpicking this? Are all French people incompetent laggards at speaking English? No, definitely not. There’s nothing about being French which makes you incapable of typing English text and maybe even *gasp* using a spell and grammar checker. The GitHub org shows seven people, is it so hard to believe they’re not absolute dolts at English? Why are you hell bent on insulting yourself?

https://github.com/orgs/suitenumerique/people