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Comment · 9 months ago
I get that the whole "co-authored by Claude" thing is supposed to be future-facing. But it's a bit cringe, for want of a better word.
Comment · 1 year ago
GPT-5 has used the phrase "heck yes!" a handful of times to me so far. I quite enjoy the enthusiasm but its not a phrase you hear very often.
Comment · 1 year ago
Perhaps some package authors are more accepting of this than others. I stumbled upon this comment in the `json` package the other day:

// isValidNumber reports whether s is a valid JSON number literal. // // isValidNumber should be an internal detail, // but widely used packages access it using linkname. // Notable members of the hall of shame include: // - github.com/bytedance/sonic

Comment · 2 years ago
Happy new years you crazy people. Hear’s to many failed ideas, to many outrageous schemes, to many goals gone amiss. I love you lot xx
Comment · 3 years ago
This is great.

One thing that could be improved: sometimes when the AI gives a "fill in the missing word" task i.e a sentence with a "______" in it, the text-to-speech literally says out loud "underscore, underscore, underscore..."

Comment · 3 years ago
"The Divided Self" by RD Laing is interesting on this

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