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Wednesday August 12th, 2026

Obligatory cat picture Dan Lyke / comment 1

Obligatory cat picture

For the love of all the deities just Dan Lyke / comment 0

For the love of all the deities, just send me the damned prompt, stop asking me to read LLM output. It's so clumsy and convoluted that I can't tell if you* have an interesting thought under there, or not.

I too exhibit a present flagrance Dan Lyke / comment 0

I too exhibit a present flagrance...

LLM links of the afternoon Dan Lyke / comment 0

Cal Newport: On AI Coding and Its Discontents (Via).

The Carlson Lab: The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI, on text regurgitation and the destruction of an academic career that comes from plagiarism. (Via Stephen Royle @steveroyle@biologists.social, Baldur Bjarnason @baldur@toot.cafe, among others).

Fix-Like Artifacts with Embedded Defects Dan Lyke / comment 0

1Password: Off-by-1 Labs: Why AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review

We studied what happens when Large Language Models (LLMs) generate vulnerability patches for recently disclosed, complex vulnerabilities. Our data shows that LLMs produce Fix-Like Artifacts with Embedded Defects (FLAWED) 53.9% of the time when complex patches are required.

Tuesday August 11th, 2026

Oh god You know that thing where to Dan Lyke / comment 0

Oh god. You know that thing where to understand code, you have to go through and strip out all of the misleading comments.

And you know how LLMs meticulously comment code.

And... yeah. I just hit one of those.

Which is why I'm looking for different work.

OHBeing a horndog is not a new thing Dan Lyke / comment 0

OH:

"Being a horndog is not a new thing it's the oldest thing."

"No but "trans woman in Starfleet uniform" is new to me"


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