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Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:36AM (#48292657)
- you use AI-generated argument in a discussion. - your co-worker counters with AI-generated argument. - you re-counter with AI-generated rebuttal. - the co-worker counter the re-counter with another AI-generated… etc.

Turtles all the way down.

Re: on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:01AM (#44133668)
On how large language models are shaping us as much as we’re shaping them.
Re:Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2024? on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @07:31AM (#42508496)
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. Cech — This is a standout for me. Spotlight on RNA with interesting historical context of the field.
Re:CalcGPT on Sunday July 28, 2024 @09:21AM (#41092951)
AI chatbots differ in their ability to handle long calculations involving single-digit numbers — https://userfriendly.substack.com/p/discover-how-mistral-lar...
Re:AI solves IMO problems at silver medal level on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:26PM (#41072997)
Coincidentally, I just posted about how well LLMs handle adding long strings of numbers: https://userfriendly.substack.com/p/discover-how-mistral-lar...
Re:Crowdstrike Outage Causing Widespread Issues on Friday July 19, 2024 @04:26AM (#41003491)
CrowdStrike achieved PMF - Product-Market Fiasco!
Re:Differentiation Treadmill of Startups on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @12:21PM (#39618279)
Seeing the world of startups with the lenses of Darwinian evolution through natural selection
Re: on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:22PM (#37904907)
Connecting User Experience, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation and Innovation with Scale-Scope Lens
Re:ChatGPT costs 700k/day to run; may go bankrupt in 2024 on Monday August 14, 2023 @08:37AM (#37120332)
“If the company has 100 million users as it has claimed, and converted 1 percent of them to paying customers, that’s good enough to put them on a $200 million plus run rate.” https://twitter.com/om/status/1690903567551586304?s=20
“It’s fair to ask about the underwriting discipline of VC firms that put most of their liquidity in a single bank with this kind of risk profile.”
Re:The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus on Sunday October 30, 2022 @02:12AM (#33391652)
I’m seeing more of this post-pandemic. I like it. It’s more evolved than just view-only PDF. Now it’s scan QR to access menu listing, add items to cart and then checkout to payment. Some even with robot server bringing the food to you. Seamless and easier than waiting for a waiter to take my order, especially in a busy restaurant.
Re:Figma vs. Adobe XD on Saturday September 17, 2022 @05:53AM (#32876207)
Should rename this to Why Adobe acquire Figma?

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