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it's fiction (seemingly everything is on the site?). maybe the title should reflect that

It's tagged "nonfiction" just below the title.

It's tagged nonfiction.

Apparently we have a case of discerning truth by whether we’re downvoting someone saying it’s fiction.

it's fictional, it says that in the bottom (nvm, tagged nonfictional)

the bottom actually says:

"He writes fiction where Disabled heroes get their happy endings _and_ nonfiction where life can, sometimes, be educational."

the sentence continues after the "and".

it is also tagged "non-fiction" at the top, as other people have noted.


It actually doesn't say that.

It's also tagged "nonfiction" though

Yes, clearly. Something like this could never happen in the real healthcare system, that would be absurd.

> Perhaps on a related note, I've noticed that a lot of the positive talks about AI are about quantity. On the other hand, there is disproportionately very little deep discussion about quality.

and to me this is so weird, because from what I can tell, quantity hasn't been the winning factor for a very long time now


> The age at which people are most likely to land on the list is 14. But a man who liked 13 year olds when he was 14, is unlikely to reoffend at 30. What is the purpose of ruining the rest of his life for a juvenile mistake?

am I like misunderstanding or what does this mean exactly? I'm so confused. "reoffend" what kind of offense are we talking about here?


Sex crimes. Particularly ones involving children. Such as having sexual pictures of children.

"who liked 13 year olds when he was 14, is unlikely to reoffend at 30"

I still don't exactly understand this part.


I was gonna say just big DCs in marketing yap but really wtf does that mean?

> I review one large PR from a coworker, and I need a nap.

feels like nowadays this is illegal and instead you should be running 50 agent swarms and be putting out 20 features an hour while reviewing the code via agents and .....

ugh.


I too thought you were joking

laughed when it slowly began to type that out


that's the problem.

I don't know if I'm just not seeing something that the vibe coders do, or if it's not really that crazy?

like I'd say it's a productivity boost in some aspects, definitely. but it's not like you'd be able to get the same output unless you had years of experience and know what you're doing

and going full unsupervised agentic mode I haven't seen much benefit from that. still have to pretty much just guide em to do this and that in this way


"Will those people KNOW a programming language? probably not. "

if I'm able to learn all kinds of stuff in just a few hours, why would programmers 20 years from now not know programming languages?

just doesn't make sense.


Yes, you could. Have you bothered learning how to wash your clothes with a washboard sitting next to a river? No, instead you using a washing machine (I presume).

There won't be much of a reason to learn a programming language at some point in the future.


(not OP but..) I personally am not very into "prompting", you just need to figure out how these models work

it's best when you ask a well known problem/thing they can reference (vs. a niche way to solve exactly what you want to solve)

then you work backwards, I e. why is it like this, what is this for, what are the alternative ways to accomplish this etc...

it's a big query engine after all.

don't try to ask like "what is the exact right way" or etc. because it will try to generate that and likely hallucinate if there is no such answer in its training corpus.

instead ask what the model does know, or doesn't.


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