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by minimaxir 19 days ago
To paraphrase another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48900086), this project is fun and fun should be encouraged, as experimentation is what leads to more innovative things. The existence of this project doesn't take away from anything.
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kjs3 18 days ago
I have many times chastised commenters about shitting on other peoples toy/hobby/side projects, but like many others I'm a bit lost on the fun of iterating on "get the Linux 0.whatever source code and rewrite it in rust..." and then crowing "LOOK WHAT I DID!" on HN. If the OP had documented "this is how I prompted the code generating LLM du jour to produce an equivalent to this early Linux kernel, this is the AI workflow I used, and this is how I overcame the problems along the way..." or some such, I'd be all in on this being interesting. As it is, it's Yet Another LLM generated bit of self promotion avoiding saying 'AI did this' and disguised as 'innovation', just like the other ten thousand 'I took something people did all the hard work on and had AI gen up a clone in rust/go/python/whatever in an afternoon...aren't I clever'.
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wang_li 18 days ago
I feel like we are past the point where using an AI tool to translate some code, to write some code, to copy some code, is considered interesting or novel.
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0x262d 18 days ago
just putting "rewritten by AI" in the headline would prevent the missed expectation feeling I got from clicking into it. but it would also sound less cool and probably get fewer upvotes, so...
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broodbucket 19 days ago
I don't think it's wrong to do this and I'm glad it's fun for some, it's just not the same as seeing a project like this that was human authored
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dijksterhuis 18 days ago
except it’s not really fun.
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dijksterhuis 18 days ago
addendum because that was admittedly a bit of a low effort reply.

throwing a token generator at an idea is not really fun. there’s a reason show hm rules say something about not posting quick one offs (pretty sure this was originally posted as a show hn?). the fun for someone like me is in the appreciation of the effort, not the result.

quirky idea? sure. but not fun

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