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Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen!


They do not deserve a shred of recommendation. This is just damage control, pretending that it did not happen never was an option. Instead they tried to claim that it was just a one of mistake. What it really shows is that nobody even bothers to read their articles before hitting publish and that AI is widely used internally.


You're absolutely right! but they can shove this euphemism. Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing, no need for all the fluff.


>> Just say that chatgpt wrote the article and no one read it before publishing

This is so interesting. I wonder if no human prompted for the article to be written either. I could see some kind of algorithm figuring out what to "write" about and prompting AI to create the articles automatically. Those are the jobs that are actually being replaced by AI - writing fluff crap to build an attention trap for ad revenue.


Very likely this already happens on slop websites (...which I can't name because I don't go there), which for example just republish press releases (which could be considered aggregation sites I guess), or which automatically scrape Reddit and translate them into listicles on the fly.


Maybe, although I'm a bit doubtful that they were 100% honest.

> Entgegen unseren Standards


As programmers I think we can extend some professional empathy and understanding: copy-and-pasting all day is a lot harder than you’d think.


compared to the writing yourself???? absolutely not


It was sarcastic.


Fair play to them for owning up to their mistake, and not just pretending like it didn't happen!

That's what the legitimate media has done for the last couple of hundred years. Every issue of the New York Times has a Corrections section. I think the Washington Post's is called Corrections and Amplifications.

Bloggers just change the article and hope it didn't get cached in the Wayback Machine.


I built a wireless highlights & annotations export service for Kobo e-readers earlier this year [1]. Had a free tier limited to 20 exports but wasn't sure how to price it beyond that, so I just left it. Recently a user reached out asking if I'd settled on pricing and how they could pay for unlimited exports! That jolted me into coming up with a price, and now I'm finally getting Stripe integrated :)

[1] - https://highlights.email


Another word I didn’t realise was considered archaic and largely forgotten in the West, until I moved out of India is “thrice”!


I just tested the model with (exif-stripped) images from Cork City, London, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangalore, and Chennai. It guessed 3/5 locations exactly, and was only off by 3kms for Cork and 10kms for Chennai (very good considering I used a slightly blurry nighttime photo).

So, even outside of California, it seems like we're not entirely safe if the robot apocalypse happens!

edit: it didn't get the Cork location exactly.


I’ve been using vim-extensions on VSCode/ Zed/ SQL Editors for a few years now and always thought I had the best of both worlds with this setup. But after switching to Cursor it seems like simply hitting tab is a lot faster than performing a vim motion in most cases and so I don’t see why people would still need Vim in 10 years time.


You can integrate AI tools into Vim too if you want.

I'd wager that in 10 years people may have moved on way from Cursor while people will still thrive with (neo)vim.


This is very interesting! I enjoy playing Gran Turismo 7 and often find it very calming; especially when I'm in a flow state and can get through a tricky part of the track very quickly without any mistakes.

I wonder if this is a case where both theories apply - the rhythmic, controlled driving stimulates the 'soothing system' while the challenge of maintaining control at high speeds provides that 'risky play' element.


Highlights.Email [1] - a service to email yourself book highlights from your Kobo E-Reader!

Exporting book highlights from a Kobo was slow and inconvenient; you’d need to connect the device to your computer via USB and run a script, or upload the onboard sqlite database to a website to extract book highlights. With Highlights.Email, you tap a button on-device and in a few seconds have a nicely formatted email with all your book highlights!

So, I’m just scratching my own itch mainly while learning how to build and launch something to the world. There’s two parts to this service: Rust program that runs on-device and a SveltKit app (w/ a Supabase backend) for auth and sending emails.

[1]: https://highlights.email


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