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Re:The Computer at the Bottom of a Canal on Sunday July 19, 2026 @06:30AM (#48966696)
Therein lies the humor, imo.
Re:Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:58AM (#46497381)
This comment and the parent one make me realize that people who answer probably value the exchange between experts more than the answer.

Perhaps the antidote involves a drop of the poison.

Let an LLM answer first, then let humans collaborate to improve the answer.

Bonus: if you can safeguard it, the improved answer can be used to train a proprietary model.

As I understand it, the main driver behind current carbon-capture tech is selling carbon credits.
Re:AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:44AM (#46301862)
Compound the gains again by asking AI to write the questions too!
I sometimes dream that they would internally reason in Ithkuil and gain amazing precision.
Re:Show HN: TypeLeap: LLM Powered Reactive Intent UI/UX on Saturday March 08, 2025 @05:18PM (#43304074)
What the Windows search box wanted to be.
A follow-up challenge is to stack all the datasets and train a model that, for any given point, guesses to which dataset it belongs.
Re:OKRs Are Bullshit on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @03:18AM (#39272118)
It seems to me that companies might want to implement OKRs as a way to align everyone on the same goals and check progress. The actual numbers aren't too important since everyone is free to miss their targets. OKRs don't give as much steering control as some might hope.
Re:DevDocs on Friday January 12, 2024 @03:42PM (#38973736)
I've been using Zeal. It doesn't have everything (yet?), but it's very relaxing.
Re:I booted Linux 292,612 times on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @11:38AM (#36327593)
Probabilistic feature flags! Love it.
And they do it in all languages, which is really helpful.
Re:Rustle: Svelte compiler rewritten in Rust on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @03:04AM (#32575810)
I've dreamt of this for ever.
And the EU :)
Re:Postgres, Kafka, and a mysterious 100 GB on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @01:22PM (#29488367)
What other footguns have you found ?