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by JSR_FDED 24 days ago
This defies belief. “I wanted to scratch a technical itch. My local AI completed the job in 30 minutes. I never pressed Start to see if it works, but I did write a blog post about it…”
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> This defies belief.

Akshually it's pretty normal for 2026.

Yup, since the rise of AI, I still didn't find any product built by it that's even remotely useful to me... People build prototypes a lot, but these are usually buggy and not worth putting money into.
It's the first article on the frontpage now, which means that it doesn't matter the project doesn't work because the readers didn't read.

(Unless bot-pushed of course)

2016 check out my new JavaScript Library!

2026 check out the work I didn't write!

2036 how I've written 200 lines in this ancient Latin called C

2037 using humans to accelerate your token throughput by a fellow LLM (the 7th method will surprise you)
* it wrote a blog post
I assure you Sir/Madam no LLMs were harmed in this post. Grammar would've been much better :)
I did however review it over 5 hours. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯