Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by jdiff on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:49AM (#46393213)

One additional bit of context, they provided guidelines and instructions specifically to send emails and verify their successful delivery so that the "random act of kindness" could be properly reported and measured at the end of this experiment.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by twoodfin on Friday December 26, 2025 @01:18PM (#46394629)

I think the key misalignment here is whether the output of an appropriately prompted LLM can ever be considered an “act of kindness”.

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Re:Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI by mckn1ght on Friday December 26, 2025 @02:06PM (#46395127)

At least in this case, it’s indeed quite Orwellian.

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