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dangtoday at 6:07 AM6 repliesview on HN

What if it wouldn't get done otherwise?

(Genuine question as we're all trying to figure this shit out)


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thesuitonymtoday at 1:28 PM

Why should anybody be interested in using software nobody was interested in making?

dengtoday at 6:24 AM

I think we can agree that this is not something anybody will actually use, but rather an homage to "They Live", and IMHO, letting this be done by AI is in contrast to the basic premise of the movie.

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tokenburnertoday at 9:57 AM

It wouldn't have. I put this off for 11 years, the joke wasn't worth the manual effort required

AI is amazing at jumping into an unfamiliar codebase, it was probably 20 mins total work

ori_btoday at 9:43 AM

We'd all be better off for it. I don't want you to take a shit on the table and call it dinner. Even if you don't cook.

d3ngtoday at 6:51 AM

I think this is false dichotomy. It's been a while since actually empowering and encouraging humans was considered normal and attempted at scale. But not that long. How quick we forget. I think it's worth getting back to.