coming from a site pasted with ai :)

might be the case, but as soon as you have read and agree with it, that doesn't make it any kind of "ai slop" :) Is it relevant or helpful? Can I verify it? Are main questions IMO.

Whether you agree with it or not has no effect on whether it's AI slop or not. Outside of math or coding, domains in which there is objective determinism, any AI outputs are slop to the extent they purport to represent the AI's subjective opinion about something. So, an AI proving that 2+2=4 is not AI slop because it's just a formal proof, whereas an AI writing a missive about how 4 is its favourite number would be slop whether you think it has good points/agree/disagree with it or not.

The fact that a site purporting to roast AI slop is itself AI slop is surely somebody taking the piss, and the fact that it has 700 upvotes and is the top story here means that people either simply don't read shit they upvote, or the brainrot is already fully established on HN.

I only read the "Do this instead" section and it sounds eminently reasonable, if not common sense.

what a waste of time

As opposed to commenting on Hacker News.

I tested with

  import needle

  @needle.tool
  def add(a: int, b: int):
      "Add two numbers."
      return a + b

  agent = needle.Needle(tools=[add])
  print(agent.run("calculate 1 + 1?")["reasoning"])

python main.py No calculator or math tool available.

conclusion: completly useless

Try the following tool description: "Calculate the sum of two numbers. Use for any arithmetic or math question." instead of "Add two numbers." Let me know how it goes, thanks!

It does better with clearer tool description, but we are taking note of these complaints for future improvements.

works better that way, thanks :)

Thanks, we shall improve this for the next release.

but still struggle when changing the quesion:

  import needle

  @needle.tool
  def add(a: int, b: int):
      "Calculate the sum of two numbers. Use for any arithmetic or math question."
      return a + b

  agent = needle.Needle(tools=[add])
  print(agent.run("what is 5 + 7?")["reasoning"])

>> No calculator or math tool available. Cannot compute numbers.

Ah, another failure point on our end! So a simple "5 + 7" and "add 5 and 7" works. But to handle ambiguity, the python package ships pipelines to synthesize augmentations and fine-tune on your samples for robustness. Just run "needle playground" and use the UI. Apologies.

Too over engineered, few text paragraphs would suffice to understand the topic.

impressive, bravo!

that's good, open weight models do not need degenerate comments to advance on AI

It would be interesting to hear if the addition of Reddit data makes LLM stronger or weaker.

Outside of some (technical)subs most of the comment seems to be of a far lower quality than what you find in books or in websites.

Someone did a finetune w/ data from 4chan and found improvements on several popular benchmarks, so ... maybe?

For years before LLMs got big a comment I would often see was, "Google search is worthless now. I basically solve all my problems by searching reddit."

Counterpoint: usernames of people counting numbers with no context whatsoever are so important they have their own tokens, despite being of no value (in fact, negative value, going by the issues they caused when actually used).

I suffered before I was able to click on the button to open github repo

I bet more than half of components in all your electronics are made in Shenzhen

And that's something very different than a complete product designed from scratch by a Chinese team in Shenzhen.

Same here, I’ve removed my credit card from Copilot and won’t be renewing

Now we need an UnFusion programming language that can take code written in any language and convert it into Fusion. With that, you could transform any project from language A into language B.

That language should be called Fusion and this language Fission.

Nice. LessIsMore