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by dan_q16 hours ago |
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upvoteby Meleagris16 hours ago|
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I don’t believe for a second that they lack the engineering talent.

It’s just another example of a company demonstrating shamelessness in the pursuit of growth, in an industry where consequences do not exist.

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upvoteby gliall_err14 hours ago|
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Talent is not some fungible measure. I know incredibly smart people who can fail at incredibly basic life skills.

"They wouldn't be that dumb" is a meaningless argument. People you don't know can be as smart as anyone on the planet and still make very dumb choices.

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upvoteby dan_q15 hours ago|
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> I don’t believe for a second that they lack the engineering talent.

Let's agree to disagree. Remember flicker-gate? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403908

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upvoteby moron4hire16 hours ago|
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Speaking of that "obviously impressive" line, I'm getting really tired of something like that line seemingly needing to be included by anyone doing any criticism of agentic systems. The most common form of it is "these models are obviously useful" midway through a bunch of arguments about environment, data provenance, skill atrophy, or even correctness issues.

It's just really weird. Why does everyone feel the need to equivocate? "I worry about genocide and the environmental impact of radiation from nuclear bombs. Obviously, they are very useful for annihilating entire cities, certainly. But are we really atrophying our ability to invade with infantry?"

I want to tell these people to just cut it out. It's demeaning to their own position.

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upvoteby dan_q13 hours ago|
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> Speaking of that "obviously impressive" line, I'm getting really tired of something like that line seemingly needing to be included by anyone doing any criticism of agentic systems. The most common form of it is "these models are obviously useful" midway through a bunch of arguments about environment, data provenance, skill atrophy, or even correctness issues.

> Why does everyone feel the need to equivocate?

Blame the mods here for that. This is the first week since 2023 I haven't had a HackerNews account banned for directly critiquing LLM code generators.

> I want to tell these people to just cut it out. It's demeaning to their own position.

I couldn't agree more. It's a rhetorical disaster.

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upvoteby ToValueFunfetti4 hours ago|
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People directly criticize LLM code generators all the time on this site. It's all over the place. You are almost certainly being routinely banned because you write low-effort comments that violate the site guidelines and negatively impact the conversation.
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upvoteby jackb40407 hours ago|
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This may be out of left field but you might be interested in Michael Parenti's essay "left-wing anti communism". It's about this same thing in American politics where everyone from the furthest right to furthest left has to condemn socialism before opening their mouth, and how it's turned the US's elected left into preemptively apologetic losers.

No idea where you stand politically but there's not that many arguments about this type of rhetorical error so hopefully you consider it.

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