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by djha-skin 1243 days ago
The output asking him to write an essay on "Lisp" is a real gem[1]! There's some absurd things in there like "Lisp used to be Scheme" but some real gems of insights like "most languages weren't designed by their users, but Lisp kinda was". There is also the obvious AI garbage nonsense like "MIT programmers are people and people are MIT programmers" :P

1: https://www.paulgrahamai.com/recAjXpYUQCDArMUT
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aubthread 1243 days ago
Haha I think you've summarized it well! I've gotten some gems of one-liners, but often the arc of the essay is unintelligible or facts are reversed.

On Sam Altman: "He's not just a fighter pilot. He's a helicopter pilot."

On Stripe: "Online payments is a huge, broken mess. [...] And once you've done it, you have to deal with a Byzantine spaghetti of fraud detection, chargebacks, and so on."

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