ronbenton

Having struggled with hard to diagnose health issues before, I can’t emphasize enough how much of a relief it is to put a name on the disease that is causing you so much harm. It is frankly shocking t…

All the disclosure and legal issues aside, it’s sobering to think of how many of these types of trivial bugs exist on random websites that collect sensitive user information. It seems hopeless to try …

Sometimes I get an "uncanny valley" vibe when reading AI-generated text. It can be pretty unnerving.

I just pasted the first paragraph in an "AI detector" app and it indeed came back as 100% AI. But I heard those things are unreliable. How did you determine this was LLM-generated? The same …

I agree this is a result of monopolization or more specifically "lock-in." I spent some time at Microsoft making products in their 365 suite and it was frankly known that enterprise contract…

We are on the darkest of paths. It’s like the current US administration is using our collective greatest fears about data privacy as a playbook.

Hm that is a weird way to ask for the feds to stop shooting innocent people

It seems you can always without fail count on this administration to do the wrong thing

This is usually a smart crowd. I’m utterly mystified at the number of comments in this thread confidently stating that the US must go back to paper ballots when 99% of the country already uses them. I…

Drives me nuts how many people don’t understand we are already using paper ballots. Electronically tabulated using risk-limiting audits. Why are so many people convinced we don’t use paper ballots? Di…

Telling uses to “watch out for prompt injections” is insane. Less than 1% of the population knows what that even means. Not to mention these agents are commonly used to summarize things people haven’t…

https://www.pcloadletter.dev Some articles have been well-received here and certainly resulted in good discussion!

This falls under "lmao even" right? Like, come on, the entire business model of most generative AI plays right now hinges on IP theft.

An existential crisis about the future of professional software development

I’m surprised they had to make this clarification. In what world does any prize like this “count” if regifted?

Something to do with shareholders I guess?

These prompt injection vulnerabilities give me the heebie jeebies. LLMs feel so non deterministic that it appears to me to be really hard to guard against. Can someone with experience in the area tell…

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I did present my own evidence to support _my_ argument that the article is woefully lacking data to support its conclusion. It's not on me to try to make the counterargument (that AI coding assis…

Well, as much as I'm sure HN is a special place ;) , it is well documented that a lot of people on the internet just read the headlines

This may be a situation where HackerNews' shorthand of omitting the subdomain is not good. spectrum.ieee.org appears to be more of a newsletter or editorial part of the website, but you wouldn&#x…

I think it should be on the article to prove its title. I hardly think presenting one test case to some different models substantiates the claim that "AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse."…

I am used to seeing technical papers from ieee, but this is an opinion piece? I mean, there is some anecdata and one test case presented to a few different models but nothing more. I am not necessaril…