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The OP is building a blogging platform, with an editor. It's not just a personal blog.

TBF, they could have explained that better in the post.

Look at the incentives. Google makes money from ads. Bad ads cause users to distrust Google ads, causing those users to be less valuable, causing advertisers to spend less with Google.

The goal is maintaining a continuous stream of revenue, not killing the stream for short term gains.

Google has an entire org dedicated to detecting and preventing bad ads.

I have many coworkers who work very hard on this problem.

The claim that Google does not care about ads integrity runs counter to my experience.

Genuinely cool, but the LLM-speak started to wear on me.

An editing pass to make the prose less "punchy" would be great.

OP is describing a distopia.

I _want_ to write code for my job.

Unfortunately, this is exactly the direction the industry is heading.

This is exactly my problem.

I got into this industry because I enjoy programming, and I wanted to get paid for what I enjoy.

It sucks that the fun part of the job is gone.

I agree, except that TAI is off from UTC by 37 seconds.

That's a pretty big smear if you want to convert an existing clock from one to the other.

I got distracted by that scroll-wheel UI component on the page. Neat!

Indeed. Regexes are _regular_, which is non hierarchical by definition.

The two are useful for different layers of abstraction: regex is for lexing and PEG is for parsing.

Speaking of the Chomsky hierarchy, last I checked, it is still unproven whether or not PEGs can parse all context free languages. Intuitively, they're _probably_ weaker than CFGs, but no one has yet provided a counter example.

But they could always do that with regular passwords.

Like, no company should be storing anything but a salted hash of their users' passwords.

I think people are focusing on the training data issue too much. If the data was contaminated, I can still blame that on negligence.

But, at least with the Navier-Stokes solution, it's clear [^1] that they learned that Alpöge and Buckmaster were getting close to a solution and learned of the general approach they were taking. Only after learning the secret to cracking the problem did they send the first prompt.

What makes this worse to me is the intention. They intentionally threw $15 million in compute at the problem in order to scoop the result. They intentionally left Buckmaster and Alpöge out of the citations.

Data contamination should be enough to disqualify them from the prize, but I can believe it to be accidental. On the other hand, someone made an intentional decision to scoop the result by throwing money at the problem. That's so much worse.

[^1]: That's the timeline claimed by Buckmaster, and no one from OAI has disputed it.

> it was a whole team at OpenAI working on the problem

Well, a whole team plus $15 million in compute spend.

(That's what OAI would have charged for the same number of tokens.)

For sure. But I can definitely produce something good enough to get the job done in a much shorter time by bootstrapping myself from an LLM output and editing from there. (I do edit. Raw LLM output is such a drag to read. Too low signal.)

I don't care if anyone else cares that my code has my voice. My voice doesn't add value to the code. But what other people think of my code is entirely beside the point that I'm trying to make.

To me, code is a creative endeavor. I know that this isn't a universal feeling, but to me the act of creating is more personally valuable than the creation. So when I read code that I wrote (with the help of a tool) that doesn't sound like me, I feel like I have robbed myself of something that I find personally important.

My employer, or anyone else, doesn't care and probably shouldn't care about my experience during the act of creating. The creation is what matters to the external world.

But like, I don't think I'm alone in valuing my own creativity and finding that creativity in code.

(And please don't misunderstand. I'm definitely not arguing that code produced should be "clever" or "creative" in the other sense of the word. I'm just talking about the experience of creativity.)