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Re:Increasing your practice surface area by Zambyte on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:36PM (#45442266)
This article might be interesting, and I'm not against AI use. I am not interested in AI slop though, and I immediately lost interest in the banner photo with nonsense text in it.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by ChanningAllen on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:05PM (#45442711)
Author here. Good feedback: the text isn't nonsense, but it requires background knowledge that the man on the right is the rapper Eminem.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by AznHisoka on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:13PM (#45442836)
I'm an Eminem fan and didn't get that reference FWIW.

I thought it was some "Silicon Valley bro" that wanted you to drink kelp, and build your biceps or something

Re:Increasing your practice surface area by ChanningAllen on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:46PM (#45443276)
Gotcha! Shame on me. Just slapped a "Slim Shady" label on his hoodie. Won't fully stop the bleeding but at least a few more people will get it.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by Zambyte on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:03PM (#45444085)
Thanks for the change, sorry if I came off as too aggressive. I've seen some uses of AI that were very similar that strictly made the article worse and it would have been better to simply delete it. I'll concede that I simply didn't get it, and that's a me problem here. I'll give the article a more fair chance when I have some time later :)
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by gcanyon on Thursday October 02, 2025 @12:43AM (#45446379)
Orange door hinge. I got the reference.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by mirror_neuron on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:42PM (#45442383)
That was my first reaction, too, but it’s not actually nonsense - it’s a depiction of Eminem practicing rhymes in a casual conversation.

It’s valid feedback for the author, though. I had to read the article to understand the image.

Re:Increasing your practice surface area by chrisweekly on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:54PM (#45442556)
Yeah, it would probably work better if that image were positioned after the reference to Eminem thinking of rhymes all day.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by NiloCK on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:26PM (#45443009)
AI polarization is a little interesting. The AI generated image prompted the parent to not even consider whether the content was on topic. This might be a decent heuristic, but it's bound to throw out a lot of potentially useful stuff as well.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by jannyfer on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:26PM (#45443010)
I lost interest when I got to the email address box to subscribe. Interrupts the flow and makes me skim the rest.
Re:Increasing your practice surface area by ChanningAllen on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:37PM (#45445851)
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