alt Hacker NewsYay, another mostly AI authored piece with vibe-coded aesthetics.
Some will say that I should 'judge the idea, not the form'.
But if the author didn't find enough strength to write alone a short ~700 words summary about his work, it means he himself isn't that interested or enthusiastic about it. Why should others bother then? Particularly since low-effort like that signals possibility the whole work is superficial and derivative.
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I'm judging the ideas in your post, not its form.
Your claim that suspected AI assistance proves the author isn't interested -- and therefore that the work is probably superficial -- is unsupported.
The article presents a working experiment, explains why naive decoding fails, describes the beam-search fix, and links the code.
Dismissing all that with presumptuous personal speculation and banal boilerplate drive-by anti-AI snark adds absolutely nothing to the conversation -- and that is intrinsically poor form.
You couldn't even find enough strength to criticize anything beyond the form, while your own form is lackluster.
Ironically, an LLM could have written your comment and improved its form without losing anything distinctive.
Say you have been working on a multi year project writing code and putting in a lot of effort.
If you then use AI to write a product page documentation and proof read it for correctness, would that constitute to signaling that the whole effort is superficial?
Some work may be left to AI while you focus on the more important aspects of the work.
Surprisingly people have got it completely backwards where they want AI to generate code and humans to write documentation.
I thought it was interesting.