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The other post was obviously astroturf bullshit, you can tell because they always mention CLAUDE CODE specifically like it's fucking Coca Cola.


I mean probably not. It's not 1,400 hardcore engineers and 200 Jony Ives being let go, it's a mix of everyone including randoms like HR and the person who orders the office coffee. Business is not good.

Okay I just wrote an "it's not, it's..." organically, is this the zeitgeist or what.


It's not a zeitgeist, it's a common English sentence structure.

The em-dash observation makes sense. Obviously a minority of people reach for an actual em-dash. The "it's not X, it's Y" complaint is totally bonkers. We might as well call proper spelling a "sign of AI". I.e. yes, AI does it more than humans, but not by so much that it makes sense to be suspicious when you see it.


No one actually used that as a red flag except the OP themselves facetiously so that’s a bad example.

The AI version of what they wrote would be more like:

  People have the wrong idea about who is getting fired. It’s not John Ive. It’s Jan ordering coffee.


Nigeria.


Italy and Spain?

Which sort of oil are we talking about again?


Would you rather fight 100 AI workhorses or 1 workhorse AI?


Ha! I would rather fight 100 workhorse AIs with an Architect + Builder AIs on my side :-).

Seriously, the agents managing agents thing works so well. When I'm working, I'll sometimes have 6 builder agents fixing different bugs, and I will lose state and I rely on the architect agent who doesn't have stupid limitations like 7 +/- 2 things in working memory.


Makes you wonder what's the point of reading these threads at all. Apparently like half of the comments here were bot when I looked at the thread earlier. Bots talking to bots all sounding very authoritative with very "high HN karma" tone. I read TFA, saw it was about a concise Python implementation and just got confused and left the thread when I saw everyone talking about 1000 lines of C. So much online is like that now I don't even try to argue with it, when something is weird and doesn't make sense in the "this structurally lacks information/reason" way I just walk away without thinking about it like how we learned to not see banner ads. It's sad to see HN joining that category.

What I don't understand is why 1000 lines of C? Were the bots somehow just going off the title "Microgpt" alone? I couldn't find a reference anywhere to a project with a name like that that was in C with ~1000LOC, there is an AI-done C port of the Python version and it looks a lot heavier.

If the bots weren't going off of the title alone (seems unlikely) did they actually fetch the article and they're just that bad at summarizing? The first sentence has "200 lines of pure Python" in it. Maybe these bots are wired up to really lousy models? But the writing is good enough. Honestly not sure why I even care.


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