Do you have a repo you can share? I'd be very interested in running my own local copy

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This sounds great, would love to see some more about this endeavor.

How do you define the cost function for 'low effort'?

I give GPT some examples of what I consider low-effort comments and non-low-effort comments, and then I just ask it to do classification. It's quite good at few-shot classification of fuzzy stuff like this.

This sounds super cool, I’m very curious how you implemented it.

I’m only vaguely familiar with the API.. if I had to guess I would say you send system instruction that its job is to filter unwanted content. And you mentioned you give few examples of unwanted content, so maybe those are additional messages along with an instruction like “filter the following html:”

For every web request you want to filter, you would re-send all of those messages followed by the page HTML as the final message. Is that close?

Close, but it's a bit more specialized to just work on HN:

- Examples of unwanted content

- Then I give a large numbered list of comments and ask which numbers should be filtered

- The plugin then just deletes those comment nodes from the DOM. If HN ever updates their HTML I will have to tweak this code.

The reason to send a large list of comments is just to save on costs. It's cheaper to do it this way than one comment at a time.

So the main difference from what you've proposed is GPT never sees the HTML. My code enumerates the comments in the HTML and splices them in to the prompt in a nice numbered list, then does the reverse translation from list number to DOM element in the other direction.

Oh that’s clever! Thanks for answering!

I don’t know how anyone can trust to run code on their machine that they don’t understand and hasn’t been reviewed by a third party.

I understand the code now, I just didn't know how to write a browser plugin and having GPT4 walk me through it was 10x faster than reading a tutorial.

How many line of codes are in the kernel, drivers, and apps on your laptop/desktop?

How sure are you that all that code has been reviewed by a 3rd party? How many CVEs a year impact your laptop/desktop?

Do you have any reason to think that increased productivity with LLM assistance will result in lower quality code? Personally I find LLM assistance increases productivity, decreases the penalty of using a more difficult language like rust, and makes it more palatable to spend more (LLM assisted) time writing tests.

I meant reviewed by a (competent) human; not, audited by a security team/whatever. Generative computer code is in a whole new category of risk, because it can hallucinate a `rm -rf *` that you might overlook if you don't understand the code yourself.

Well at least for now, any non-trivial code is going to be written by a human+AI, likely one function at a time. It's pretty rare for the AI to give me exactly what I want, often I have to tweak my prompts multiple times, and even just give up and write a function based on the useful bits from previous queries.

I just don't see it chatbot assisted programming any worse than what we have today.

Isn't that pretty much all code?

Some negative, even overly negative comments contain good ideas though so maybe it’s not a great idea?

Your comment has been detected to contain oppositional tones and has thus been filtered out.

You are hereby removed from the discourse.

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Love it!

It's very inclusive to filter out all "negative" people.

That's ok. If it's a good idea, somebody else will talk about in a positive way.

Also, unless you are reading every comment in every thread, you are going to miss a few interesting ideas anyway. That's ok too.

Stay calm and keep summarising!

You are handsome, clever and very virtuous... You are in a positivity filter bubble -- that is super positive. (What about DEI though? Are you being inclusive? Filtering is exclusive).

You are so good.. because you don't acknowledge negativity. Best way to solve problems is to ignore them. Let's all be super loving and positive! Yay.