The journal is about a thing this person does privately for fun.
The writing style is clearly not meant for others to read either. They just did stream of consciousness out of their brain and didn't proofread. It's not meant for external consumption.
Capitalization is something you do out of respect for your reader, to make things easier for them. If you aren't intending others to read your writing, then there's no one to disrespect, so why bother?
I feel like the AI backlash is creating a rise in "authenticity signaling", cheap public displays of not using AI. Much like virtue signaling, it's lacking in substance and presents as an annoying affectation to people outside of the target in-group.
Let's say the average sentence is 17.5 words, with the average word length being 4.5 characters. Not capitalizing the first word is only a 1.27% character error rate, on average. Not too bad. ;)
more or less. to do it sanely requires adding lowercased words to your phone keyboard's dictionary like i'm, i'd, i'll, and i've. a lot of us also leave off the trailing period
I have the same thought on all these "I don't use AI" posts: I would like to not use an LLM too, but I'd soon be out of a job if I didn't. It's an exhausting place to be and I wish I were closer to retirement.
The tone of this article is "I guess everyone else is stupid now", but his reason for not using LLMs is that he likes doing it the hard way.
Good for him but I don't think that justifies such a snooty position.
I will agree that it kinda sucks not being able to claim credit for your work. I've vibe coded or vibe finished several apps now that are extremely impressive, better than the existing alternatives. But I feel weird saying "I made this" because it feels like I barely did anything.
> eMudhra. you know, the company who had their CA private key as the number Four. this wasn't found by an ai, but just a human using a old ass library made by google called paranoid_crypto to scan through keys for fun out of curiosity
> The goal is to increase the confidence in cryptography use cases inside and outside Google. With Paranoid, any cryptographic artifact can be tested, but its primary motivation is to detect the usage of weak third party hardware or software black boxes.
So google didn't use their own paranoid_crypto lib to check the key before adding it to the Chrome trusted certs.
> don't know how more people don't experience this, but staring at an llms output be confidently wrong eventually to get there in the process, or looking at the commands its running and see some really stupid things its doing drives me crazy to the point i will just stop it before it answers, i cannot handle something being that confidently wrong (even though it'll probably still get there in the end)
They do? Internet is filled with people complaining about it
My work pays me the same if I kick off a Codex session and go practice guitar. My workflow now is like, prompt LLM, answer some emails or review some code, get a coffee, see what it barfed out.
> (even though it'll probably still get there in the end)
Burning up tokens/credits needlessly as it does so. That might be a non-issue for people using LLMs through their work but as someone doing AI on a limited budget that's an issue that drives me up a tree!
Coding is now a lot like playing chess.
It's been decades since beating the best computer at chess was possible. But people still play, because they find it fun to get better at.
The major difference being that winning a chess game doesn't yield a permanent artifact that is useful, generally.
It's fine this person wants to journal about the things they do privately for fun. They clearly aren't writing for others to read their work.
Some of us capitalize the first letter of every sentence. Wild.
The journal is about a thing this person does privately for fun.
The writing style is clearly not meant for others to read either. They just did stream of consciousness out of their brain and didn't proofread. It's not meant for external consumption.
Capitalization is something you do out of respect for your reader, to make things easier for them. If you aren't intending others to read your writing, then there's no one to disrespect, so why bother?
I feel like the AI backlash is creating a rise in "authenticity signaling", cheap public displays of not using AI. Much like virtue signaling, it's lacking in substance and presents as an annoying affectation to people outside of the target in-group.
Let's say the average sentence is 17.5 words, with the average word length being 4.5 characters. Not capitalizing the first word is only a 1.27% character error rate, on average. Not too bad. ;)
I guess we’re so used to autocorrect doing that, so that disabling it is a flex now?
You guys are using autocorrect?
more or less. to do it sanely requires adding lowercased words to your phone keyboard's dictionary like i'm, i'd, i'll, and i've. a lot of us also leave off the trailing period
it's an intentional display of informality by the writer, i imagine. i do the same a lot of the time.
I have the same thought on all these "I don't use AI" posts: I would like to not use an LLM too, but I'd soon be out of a job if I didn't. It's an exhausting place to be and I wish I were closer to retirement.
Maybe LLMs could moonlight as shift-key replacement as well?
The tone of this article is "I guess everyone else is stupid now", but his reason for not using LLMs is that he likes doing it the hard way.
Good for him but I don't think that justifies such a snooty position.
I will agree that it kinda sucks not being able to claim credit for your work. I've vibe coded or vibe finished several apps now that are extremely impressive, better than the existing alternatives. But I feel weird saying "I made this" because it feels like I barely did anything.
> eMudhra. you know, the company who had their CA private key as the number Four. this wasn't found by an ai, but just a human using a old ass library made by google called paranoid_crypto to scan through keys for fun out of curiosity
https://github.com/google/paranoid_crypto
> The goal is to increase the confidence in cryptography use cases inside and outside Google. With Paranoid, any cryptographic artifact can be tested, but its primary motivation is to detect the usage of weak third party hardware or software black boxes.
So google didn't use their own paranoid_crypto lib to check the key before adding it to the Chrome trusted certs.
> don't know how more people don't experience this, but staring at an llms output be confidently wrong eventually to get there in the process, or looking at the commands its running and see some really stupid things its doing drives me crazy to the point i will just stop it before it answers, i cannot handle something being that confidently wrong (even though it'll probably still get there in the end)
They do? Internet is filled with people complaining about it
My work pays me the same if I kick off a Codex session and go practice guitar. My workflow now is like, prompt LLM, answer some emails or review some code, get a coffee, see what it barfed out.
> i cannot handle something being that confidently wrong
I don’t know how these people have stayed so oblivious to it happening all around them for decades. LLMs didn’t invent it.
> (even though it'll probably still get there in the end)
Burning up tokens/credits needlessly as it does so. That might be a non-issue for people using LLMs through their work but as someone doing AI on a limited budget that's an issue that drives me up a tree!