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I was going to type you a sympathetic message and took a peek at your profile, and...well that's quite a resume you got there!

Heh thank you. It was a few years ago that this happened, when they were doing the big RTO.

Accountability. Same reason I want to read human written content rather than obvious AI: both can be equally shit, but at least with humans there's a high probability of the aspirational quality of wanting to be considered "good"

With AI I have no way of telling if it was from a one line prompt or hundreds. I have to assume it was one line by default if there's no human sticking their neck out for it.


The human who submitted the PR is 100% accountable either way, thats partly my point.

Disclosing AI has its purposes, I agree, but its not like we can reliably get everyone to do it anyway, which also leads me to thinking this way.


I took ~ to be a "singing tone" for some reason till I saw sibling and realized it might be an attempted strikethrough xD


For two

Fairly obvious? Or isn't it that way for everyone?

Very obvious, but things that seem obvious might not actually be true. It is worth verifying.

Getting organisations to act on the obvious if it requires changing is harder than you might think. Having research to point to and saying you are doing the wrong thing and now you've been told is like turning the lights on and off really quickly and moaning "Liability" in a spooky voice.


Fair enough. I had a hard time advocating for good password flows because "standards" said frequent rotation etc.

And tbh when you apply those standards with context and are faced with people bare-minimum pointing at the standards, you sometimes come off as less knowledgeable - such is the authority of research/standards.

Anyway, I skimmed your profile and learnt a new word, milquetoast - so thanks for that!


Had to do a double take, but true

Oh wow. I got multiple messages in a day and just assumed it was a cache bug.

It's annoying how I always get that "claude code has a native installer xyz please upgrade" message


I think it goes away if you actually use the native installer ...

The hombrew version doesn’t say anything about the native installer, but still bugs you to update after every minor version (which is every day, sometimes multiple times per day)

The npm version tells you there’s a native installer and to use it instead

The native installer never says anything. Not sure how it gets updated


I've never gotten that message?

"Of course, they're gonna know what intercourse is By the time they hit fourth grade They've got the Discovery Channel, don't they?"


You're not wrong. If comment sections were restricted to people who knew the subject matter AND the author, it would be empty indeed.


That's good reasoning, but the parent's point still stands?


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