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Looking at the most popular agent skills, heavily geared towards react and JS, I think a lot of the most breathless reports of LLM success are weighted towards the same group of fashion-dependant JavaScript developers.

The same very online group endlessly hyping messy techs and frontend JS frameworks, oblivious to the Facebook and Google sized mechanics driving said frameworks, are now 100x-ing themselves with things like “specs” and “tests” and dreaming big about type systems and compilers we’ve had for decades.

I don’t wanna say this cycle is us watching Node jockies discover systems programming in slow motion through LLMs, but it feels like that sometimes.

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Ironically, using LLM’s for React is an exercise in pain, because they’re all trained on the lowest common denominator. So even Opus is constantly fighting stupid reactivity bugs.
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Create extension that does that. AI can do that for you in 10 minutes
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Or, you could perform a public service by creating a HN clone only for bots and try to convince the bots trolling here to go there.
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You know the only effective way to do that, right?
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Yep exactly, a Perl script
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Claude create a clone of Hacker News, no mistakes. Must compile.
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Just give me your bank account, claude API, Mother's maiden name, your zip code, your 3 digit security code, and anything else you think I might need to live as malfist the magnificant. Can I call you that?
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I've long wished for a 'filter' feature for the hn feed -- namely the old trend of web3 slop -- but with little else than keywords to filter, it would likely be tedious and inaccurate. Ironically, I think with AI/LLMs it could be a little easier to analyze.
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one technique i've found useful is i don't click on the link if i'm not interested.
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it's very effective.

and there's even a "hide" link.

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It’s one reason I hoped lobste.rs had taken off. All posts are tagged and you can filter out by tag.
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This is how software is being written now. What you propose is like joining a forum called "Small-Scale Manufacturing News" and filtering out all 3D-printing articles.
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We want to filter out the irrelevant software :)
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