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Can we make a class action lawsuit target multiple storefronts? Apple and Google desperately need to be gently reminded of this less. With a power drill attached dildo. Their searches are trash, first hit is always an ad.

This bit in particular

> Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).

I stopped reading there.

> IMO the post-mortem is more a satirical response to the HN criticism

They have edited it again to be slightly more emotional. It's why their "On Taste" closure doesn't actually pertain to Taste anymore. Of course, they wouldn't notice the mismatch - they didn't write it in the first place.

They aren't being satirical. They're pissed they got called them out. Were they not, they'd not bother with edits.

I was expecting them to state that they were doing a bit with the post-mortem, but the punchline never came. It is even more consistently AI coded than the full text. Give us a /s, give us a wink a nod, give us a markdown sygil of LOSS.png, anything that says "I am actually a human", because all that reads as is BEEP BOOP KILL ALL HUMANS.

In other words, they did not even need a prompt. You could probably skip feeding the paragraph and just told "generate visuals for the opening paragraph of the LotR", and the LLM would successfully do it as it has a very good idea of what they are from its training data.

This is a bigger difference to the pelican than simple reproducibility steps. The pelican is intentionally esoteric, and thus open ended. The LotR is mundane and has a "correct" answer, aka, copy the movie.

It makes it a really awful test of capabilities. The pelican isn't a slop test. This crap is.

I fully agree.

But I do think this was a poor demonstration of the idea for another reason: Tolkien works have a HUGE corpus of training data. It's great that random users can come in and immediately recognize what the footage is, but it fails at the very first thing the pelican was meant to do:

- Render this thing you have only tangential training data of, that also happens to be an asymmetrical object so we can see how much you fuck up the details if you somehow flip the orientation half the time.

They should have used an obscure story, not "Most Studied Piece of Literally Work of The Past Century trademarksymbol"

Yeah, Obsidian has allow me to create a comprehensive back and frontlog of all types of media. And that is super useful to me, and I can make this little connect information base in a way no tools before it had really accomplished. The "queries" are much more natural and much closer to actual real paper notes.

Which is fundamentally a reference sheet, it's not for learning.

That might be why interacting with dedicated PKM-centric communities and content is personally so exhausting.

You know, seeing a total of 3 replies on this topic, I think the lesson here is to, from now on, with comments like this, to clearly state

"Pi has *ALL* the tools, can you name one it does not".

None will. But hide them in a box, away from where others can see, and they will happily sign a piece of paper that says they do. One so called a ballot.