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Amiga Unix, Again

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  1. jchw · · focus · HN ↗
    My eternal advice to anyone doing heavily LLM assisted projects is to do them a bit less LLM assisted. You should still use LLMs, in my opinion, they're wonderful tools. But I know reading this page that this text is mostly LLM-generated, and that leaves there to be little hope that much else of the project isn't.

    It's one thing if your code is really truly "co-authored by" Claude. It's another thing if it isn't even really co-authored by you.

    Evidently the majority of people see no problem with LLM prose, but me and many others think it is some of the most annoying crap possible. Please consider speaking in your own voice.

    I know this gets repetitive, but it is important.

    1. musha68k · · focus · HN ↗
      FWIW by this point, many of us are in deep symbiosis.

      Useful or not, another Amiga / Unix fan probably had fun and some learnings too.

      At the very least, the real-world impact is that tokens have been spent, the outputs open sourced.

      It would be nice to hear their voice survive the loops of agentic abstraction of course but I don't know if that is even possible at that higha level.

      Maybe it's that, maybe it's "just another issue of alignment"? Potentially serious in aggregate and over time..

      I personally don't mind the imo little "neuralese" (is that what we call it now?) here specifically. In any case it's good for you that you can (still?) tell?

      Why not applaud the playground time/energy/token budget directed? Especially as a decades long NetBSD (and Amiga:) fan I do appreciate multitudes; maybe here not exactly the case in tone of writing but in relatively cheap, fun experiments / projects during the agentic take-off of 2026. The whole trend reminds me a bit of remix/DJ culture; the "producing DJ"?

      1. Brian_K_White · · focus · HN ↗
        They can have all the fun they want however they want, but it's not interesting or valuable to anyone else.

        It's annoying how many people think they have discovered the cheat code to collect Manhattens for trinkets.

        1. yjftsjthsd-h · · focus · HN ↗
          > but it's not interesting or valuable to anyone else.

          Post has 143 points at this writing; a noticeable number of people seem to feel differently

          1. Brian_K_White · · focus · HN ↗
            It is entirely unmarkable to find 143 people who agree with litterally anything at all.
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