[binoct]

I really hope this was an experiment in using gen AI:

“Create a website for a new company that is building the next generation of computing hardware to power AI software. Make sure it sounds science-y but don’t be too specific.”

[swalsh]

Why make such a low effort pessimistic comment. What happened to HN?

[adw]

HN has always been a tense standoff between a few cliques, the first two being the ostensibly intended audience;

* competent and curious engineers

* entrepreneurs, who live on a continuum where one end is...

* ...hucksters and snake-oil purveyors, of which there are plenty, and

* (because this is the Internet) conspiracy theorists and other such loons

and recently

* political provocateurs

You can make a thread work (for that group of people) if it self-selects who reads it. Unfortunately, AI is catnip to all five of these groups, so the average thread quality is exceptionally low – it serves all five groups badly.

Whether some of these people _should_ be served well is a separate question.

[catchnear4321]

same thing that is happening everywhere. cognitive effort is getting unbalanced, it used to be necessary to put effort in on write, and on read.

now, it is hard to tell who put effort in at all. read or write.

would you consider your own response to be optimistic or high effort?

[g8oz]

Snark has always been part of this website.

[ks2048]

I think pointing out BS is an important part of a useful forum.

[throw10920]

You might have responded to the wrong comment.

binoct's comment is not "pointing out BS" - that requires that you, y'know, actually point out things. binoct's comment is sneering, without any content or thought. Pure fluff.

[amusedcyclist]

^ How to spot a sucker

[adfm]

The use of “full-stack” was the first thing I noticed. Everyone, please stop using that term. I’m pretty sure, with a high degree of certainty, you don’t know what it means. If you do, there’s a merit badge waiting for you. And can we please stop using “hallucinations” to describe output. Yes, it may look like your tool dropped acid, but that’s not what it is.

[dekhn]

Rob Pike once said that he was "full-stack": when he worked on Voyager, he understood the system from quantum mechanics to flight software (https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/109763603394772405)

[adfm]

No joke: The guy that coined the term is the same guy that made the merit badge. Enjoy looking that one up.

[catchnear4321]

full-stack means the ic can take any ticket. do the details beyond that matter?

[falcor84]

Well, quantity has a quality all its own. Extending the sprint to wait for the person to complete their PhD as part of the "research" part of the ticket would not quite be Scrum.

[adfm]

Buy the ticket, take the ride…

[catchnear4321]

first you have to be told what you’re buying next.

(before that you were given the chance to object to the estimate, but not to change it.)

[adfm]

No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind.

[pclmulqdq]

I now think of the "stack" of a modern business as starting with physics and ending with making someone happy (unless you are Oracle). Full-stack engineers should then know how to connect physics to peoples' happiness.

[Nevermark]

> can we please stop using “hallucinations” to describe output.

Right. A better word is confabulation.

I.e. pseudomemories, a replacement of a gap in information with false information that is not recognized as such.