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Re:“AI Skills” are worthless in 2026 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:14PM (#50266604)
I think the real "AI skill" that has to be learned, is to NOT get comfortable with your workflow. I have already changed it plenty of times and each time it required a complete overhaul but gave a huge improvement. Like you mentioned, people tend to stay with what they have first learned, but it's suboptimal. So I think the true AI skill will be to let go of everything you have learned and just embrace the stochastic brain and constantly adapt.

I haven't been bothered to setup my IDE since may and my friends from uni are prompting claude to use svelte instead of react.

Re:Why is Google still serving dodgy ads? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @08:38PM (#49690372)
Cloaking.

Google bans people, but mostly the innocent ones. If you're running blackhat, you've built a setup that gives you very good avoidance, and the bans are calculated into your sheets. The reviewer and the system sees something else than the customer clicking the ad. And even if they get banned, they will just burn a cc and domain and then get back to printing after a few hours.

While a legitimate business never suspects it can get banned, and when it does, the process is Kafkaesque.

Our case: a month of back and forth on the appeal, no success. The best we got was a suggestion to read the TOS and check whether we had any "brand affiliations" we don't have in real life. Previous replies were pasted slop. We don't have any affiliations, and we still have no clue what they were talking about. Meanwhile our conversion rate on other ad platforms was decimated by us constantly changing stuff to please the Google reviewer.

Re:1kB Website as Status Symbol on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:58PM (#49502738)
I might have gone too far onto the fanciness side. Huge thanks for the feedback, I'm very deranged due to working entire days with AI generated text. I didn't notice it was incomprehensible to the normal eye. I will sanitize the conversation and add it to the post. It's quite a lot of sessions so it will take a bit.
Re:1kB Website as Status Symbol on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:49PM (#49502633)
thanks for reading, the same reason I told in the post - lack of skills.
Re:1kB Website as Status Symbol on Sunday August 30, 2026 @04:47PM (#49502613)
The use of AI in writing was deliberate - it is a bit of irony and live evidence. I'm a nerd, no writer in fact. Language and artistic wording is pretty hard for me. What I lack is skills. LLM's allowed me to skip the step and focus on taste. The argument is very well refined, please, dig into it. AI written but human designed. I wonder whether sharing the session with the stochastic parrot would be better, but no one wants to read a hundred messages reiterating the same paragraph because it is unsound or invalid.