Thomas Ahle: evaluation

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…extracting, distilling it, kind of. I'm sure this has happened to you. Random people on the internet will say, I've just generated this paper, I've just generated this code, have a look at it. And, you know, there's massive amounts of AI psychosis out there, which is that, like, you do things that are slightly outside your domain of expertise and Claude will convince you that your stuff is not mediocre, it's great, and then you share it with other people and other people immediately see through it. And this is a bit of a serious problem as well, in my opinion, because I think there are experts out there who have really, really clear ideas about things. They've been doing software engineering and, you know, they've been in science. And when they use Claude, it's brilliant if if they're diligent. Right? Because they can actually use good abstractions and representations. But there's now a tsunami of pollution out there. Yeah. I don't Yeah. And it breaks the social contract, right? Like in the past if if I wrote something and ask you to read it, you could at least have assumed that I would have spent 10 times more times writing it than you reading it. But now you're really skeptical about anything because like why would I want to spend time reading some stuff that you didn't even read yourself maybe. Yeah, like I mean, but a lot of these are like social problems, right? Like how do we protect also the open source ecosystem from AI generated PRs where like no 1 has ever read them and then these like volunteer maintainers have to like read through all the slop. Yeah. And yeah, it's it's not really fun. Yeah. Do you have you talked with anyone about that? Like people talking about like we need like a GitHub, like a social credit system, like a commerce system so so people can, like, down rate you. And, like, if if you don't have high enough commerce, maybe they'll just not read your PRs or We do need that. Yeah. Yeah. And archive recently…

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