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Probably yes; If Figma is deciding for you where the gradient goes, what colors it is, and what its purpose in the design is, then no.
No, it's using FL Studio's random sequence generator with a general MIDI instrument, exporting it, then saying it's a ballad you just composed. Or paying a ghostwriter to write on a topic, then saying it's a novel you just wrote.
You aren't building your own game if you have a chatbot do it for you.
Re:Os8088: A powerful Mac-like OS for the IBM XT, 286, 386 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:24PM (#49227828)
Different groups, the spammers like to congratulate each other for how much hard work they must have put into their very impressive prompt engineering. Regardless, AI code is distinct from extremely blatant AI design. People dismiss things that had no actual design, just whatever fell out of the prompt they gave it. If you can't write a single human paragraph or put thought and care into how you are presenting 'your' project, it's not worth paying attention to. Why can't they present their own work honestly? Why would I spend energy looking at an OS made by someone who can't write an HTML file by themself?
Re:99% of My Website Traffic Is Bots on Friday August 07, 2026 @11:27AM (#49211958)
If you 'don't mesh' with that then you are not worth protecting anyway :)
Re:I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux on Thursday August 06, 2026 @12:01AM (#49192268)
Do you take photos or use Bluetooth? What's the experience like for multimedia SMS (assuming no RCS), Whatsapp or other apps normal people use, or file transfer? Is there any device that can even do NFC?
Re:Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @12:07PM (#49184777)
Because it sounds impressive to clueless people ($).
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Re:Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @12:07PM (#49170874)
Not if it's a Blu-Ray that forces you to update keys, codecs, the player app, or drink the verification can. The last time I tried to watch a disc on an Xbox I just couldn't because the Blu-Ray app wasn't a blessed version and I had no internet. The OG had a CD ripper built in!!
Never seen GPL disclosed with a BIG logo before (it's a good logo!)
They aren't asking for money or literally anything from you, it's just someone's project with a silly name.
Re:Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old on Sunday August 02, 2026 @07:05PM (#49149324)
Yep! <3
It finally feels premium. This is really funny
Re:Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:13PM (#49147863)
Re:GE-97 Terminal: The Old Internet on Sunday August 02, 2026 @01:43PM (#49146587)
I'm so incredibly tired of the monospace glowy-text black-background cursor-trail breathless emdash prompt-repeating nonsense text Claude artifacts getting posted here. Not a single paragraph here reads as human-written English.
Re:The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:32AM (#49145529)
I get the feeling the hidden 'tools' button that makes Image Search actually useful (filter resolution, transparent PNG, animated gif etc) is going to be completely broken soon too, like they did to reverse search.
Re:How to Spot AI Writing on Saturday August 01, 2026 @11:01AM (#49135044)
Love a good self-citation, it'll definitely catch on
Re:Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:30PM (#49127570)
'keeps' is the wrong tense and could be 'will keep'
Re:Azulejo on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:32PM (#49113077)
I think this fits nicely under the guidelines of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" a lot more than all of the AI marketing blogspam over there.
I wonder if this is because of one broadcast character generator or something deciding to use it and people cloning them, or just being the best choice at the time? I've never heard of PFR and find those kinds of parallel-universe standards interesting
Thank you! CSG has made level prototyping more fun and fast in Godot for me.
Re:VLC for Unity now supported on Linux on Monday July 27, 2026 @05:19PM (#49075658)
They acquired Plastic SCM around 2020 and I believe they integrated it into the engine, but that was shortly after I stopped using Unity
Re: on Sunday July 26, 2026 @02:12PM (#49060737)
Did you write this or have Claude do it? You've never used an em dash in your comment history and this doesn't sound human. Are you trying to use it for translation?
Re:It's a shame what's happened to radio on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:23AM (#49002195)
But the human ones are probably jockeying disks now anyway :)
Re:The Zilog Z80 has turned 50 on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:46PM (#48955021)
The TI-84+ might be one of my favorite retro computers.
Personally it's the same way you look at a thing and get a mental sense of "this is that thing" without having to scan every detail right away, you look at a chunk of a sentence or words and get the sense of its meaning, and you can vocalize that in your head if you want to
Re:Just Do Things on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:33PM (#48941664)
I think whatever Javascript you made your AI write to do that is causing scrolling to be incredibly laggy on a phone and warm my entire device; Pixel 7a in Firefox.

edit: it's something you (Claude) are doing with text rendering. Zooming in on any text makes it exponentially worse.

It's obvious when you don't give a shit about design. It's extremely obvious when you lie about making something that a machine output when you don't give a shit about design yourself. Everybody sees this.

Did an LLM generate this website or stylesheet?
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:05PM (#48914073)
My bad, I had skimmed the wiki to confirm but I did misinterpret it as only storing NBT data for user-placed blocks, regenerating the rest. It makes sense why that wouldn't work.
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:09PM (#48912341)
I think "storing deltas" based on seed is largely how Minecraft saves the level already, but you could probably strip out a bunch of useless metadata to get it smaller

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