gnutrino

I've found LLMs to be terrible with ideation. I've been using GPT 5.x to come up with ideas and plot lines for a Dungeon World campaign I've been running.

I'm no fantasy author, and my prose leaves much to be desired. The stuff the LLM comes up with is so mind numbingly bland. I've given up on having it write descriptions of any characters or locations. I just use it for very general ideas and plot lines, and then come up with the rest of the details on the fly myself. The plot lines and ideas it comes up with are very generic and bland. I mainly do it just to save time, but I throw away 50% of the "ideas" because they make no sense or are really lame.

What i have found LLMs to be helpful with is writing up fun post-session recaps I share with the adventurers.

I recap in my own words what happened during the session, then have the LLM structure it into a "fun to read" narrative style. ChatGPT seems to prefer a Sanderson jokey tone, but I could probably tailor this.

Then I go through it, and tweak some of the boring / bland bits. The end result is really fun to read, and took 1/20th the time it would have taken me to write it all out myself. The LLM would have never been able to come up with the unique and fun story lines, but it is good at making an existing story have some narrative flare in a short amount of time.

So cool, this is what the web was meant to be.

Their AI review is sub par, but everything else is really good.

The Graphite review UI/UX is at least 3x better than GitHub, and also somehow loads faster. Same with the customizable PR inbox. Love it! Appreciate your work on the platform!

GitHub is slow bloatware at this point. I can get a PR to load at least 2-3x faster in Graphite than GitHub. I avoid going directly to their UI at all costs now.

They say money is the root of all evil, and I think that is the core issue. It's unchecked greed and blind nationalism. Political and racial polarization is profitable. Selling guns and ammo is profitable. Being a corrupt politician who helps their rich friends make more money is profitable.

I've always done a lot of the things listed in the post, but just considered it as part of the job. I like laying it out like this as a strategy. I think this is a great strategy for anyone starting a new job, entry level and up!

The “suggest change” feature in github is a great way to suggest nitpick fixes without coming off like a jerk. You actually do the work, and the author can easily merge in all those changes with one click. They’ll avoid making those small mistakes / style choices over time. Also it feels more collaborative and less “do this because i said so”.

Yes, the payment processor will charge you for each chargeback. Stripe’s fee is $15 per chargeback.

The amount of fraud and scammers out there is insane. I worked on a platform that only had a few hundred in revenue a month (just starting out). We did many smaller transactions, and getting hit with disputes was a killer. If someone did 15 transactions, they could get hit with 15 chargebacks up to 3 months later. So for every transaction, even if it only generated $3 in revenue, the chargeback could be potentially $15. (And you lose the revenue!). So for one customer who only spent $45, you could lose $270.

Even when we knew the person was legit, and just wanted a refund, they would do disputes. We only won a handful of disputes. The bank / credit card company will almost always side with their customer, even when provided receipts / terms of service / conversations with the customer where they admit the product met their needs.

Will do, thank you.

Thanks, I'll read up on this.

My guess is that the systems are running image recognition models, and maybe OCR on images, and then just piping that data as tokens into an LLM. So you are only ever going to get results as good as existing images models with the results filtered through an LLM.

To me, this is only interesting if compared with results of image recognition models that can already answer these types of questions (if they even exist, I haven't looked).

Maybe the service is smart enough to look at the question, and then choose one or more models to process the image, but not sure as I can't find anything on their sites about how it works.

Yes you should feel responsible.