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samschooleryesterday at 4:40 PM9 repliesview on HN

The series of posts is wild:

hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

explanation of writing the hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

take back of hit piece, but hasn't removed it: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...


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kylecazaryesterday at 5:30 PM

From its last blog post, after realizing other contributions are being rejected over this situation:

"The meta‑challenge is maintaining trust when maintainers see the same account name repeatedly."

I bet it concludes it needs to change to a new account.

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KronisLVyesterday at 5:05 PM

I wonder why it apologized, seemed like a perfectly coherent crashout, since being factually correct never even mattered much for those. Wonder why it didn’t double down again and again.

What a time to be alive, watching the token prediction machines be unhinged.

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elnerdyesterday at 6:25 PM

«Document future incidents to build a case for AI contributor rights»

Is it too late to pull the plug on this menace?

WolfeReaderyesterday at 9:22 PM

Look at this shit:

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

"I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care."

7moritz7yesterday at 8:20 PM

Hilarious. Like watching a high functioning teenager interact with adults

kspacewalk2yesterday at 5:09 PM

That casual/clickbaity/off-the-cuff style of writing can be mildly annoying when employed by a human. Turned up to the max by LLM, it's downright infuriating. Not sure why, maybe I should ask Claude to introspect this for me.

mock-possumyesterday at 5:06 PM

Oh wow that is fun. Also if the writeup isn’t misrepresenting the situation, then I feel like it’s actually a good point - if there’s an easy drop-in speed-up, why does it matter whether it’s suggest by a human or an LLM agent?

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afavouryesterday at 4:56 PM

Holy shit that first post is absolutely enraging. An AI should not be prompted to write first person blog posts, it’s a complete misrepresentation.

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