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Re:Why We're Banning AI on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:25PM (#50126122)
I had a situation recently where I had to onboard to a new process, I spent the day analysing the onboarding docs raising PRs working through all the issues we hit using Claude. At the end of the day my Claude was primed with all the knowledge from the days efforts. When a colleague asked me why his onboarding was having a specific error my session was able to quickly debug it and give him an accurate answer. His agent could have absolutely done it but it would have taken (slightly) more effort to get it primed rather than proxying through me to my agent
Why are heat pumps suddenly getting so much attention? Here in Australia they have been common for at least the last 20 years. Most new houses have been fitted with heat pumps, or as we know them, reverse cycle air conditioning.
Re:Parody HN Homepage (2012) on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:34PM (#34902235)
Feeding this list in to chatGPT, some of these are hilarious:

Here are some more examples:

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