As someone dealing with a few cases of cancer in the family (including a child) I can’t help but think what an amazing miracle to live to 91 years old. Some people really hit the jackpot! Rest in peace.

A post a few years back by someone dying of a terminal disease said as much (and I will not forget the sentiment). Essentially: old age is a privilege, not something anyone should ever expect.

When my younger sister was in elementary school, she complained to my mother that the other kids at school had grandparents.

Isn’t this a kind of “leopards ate my face” situation? I thought we had all “agreed” that letting AI write code and take control of software repositories is good, even if we have no idea what is going on beyond a thin surface layer, because well it’s fast and we can fix it later and lol who needs testing? My customers are my testers.

And now it’s suddenly bad because the developer is the customer?

The sneaky commit modification is triggered by very modest usage of AI such as auto-completion.

Look, if an agent writes the code and the commit message then adding a Co-authored-by by default is ok. Not even showing it before the commit is made is not, and adding the message when AI was just completing code is not.

I genuinely think it's not ok even then. Copilot is a tool, one of many I use. That tool has no business polluting commit messages without my knowledge.

The appended message isn't even adding any new information, as in this day and age a vast majority of commits is probably "co-authored" by an LLM.

I should have been clearer, the hidden addition is never ok.

If I ask Claude to write a commit message, it will inserted a co-author line (and an ad), but I can see it and disapprove, add a counter instruction to CLAUDE.md etc

I personally don’t understand the need to treat a tool as an “author” but that’s not important, my comment is mostly regarding the backlash of what happened. A feature was rushed in and does not work as intended, in a kind of disastrous way. Now we feel like our customers do when they have to deal with all the crap that our AI co-authors push forward without the right process.

Glorified autocomplete, syntax reminder and random snippet generator thinks it's co-authoring things.

I’m sorry, I don’t get it: a piece of software needs credit for creating another piece of software? Like, would you credit GCC for adding optimisations to your binary?

It's useful as metadata (like how JPEGs can store the camera model it was taken on, or PDFs contain the program used to generate it), but yes, I don't like LLMs giving themselves co-author credit. I turn this off in Claude Code.

It's a useful warning label for LLMed code. (When an editor isn't gratuitously adding it to non-LLMed code.)

GCC isn't making editorial decisions.

How can anyone differentiate an insider bet from a normal one enough to actually make use of it?

I think the premise is that the betting market prediction odds should be more accurate than other sources of statistics because of the underlying financial incentive.

As long as the hordes of losers are not bothered by it enough to ask for fairness in the business, you’re right. Ethics and morals are constructs with the intention of creating a better, more just common existence. If the people in this common existence don’t care, then there is no reason for them not to do it.

Because the markets don’t “forbid” anything, especially when they are profiting from it, which polymarket definitely is. It’s the government who must forbid things for the good of the citizens. But somehow the citizens were dumb enough to fall for the bullshit idea that you should put the same person who is profiting in charge of regulating their own crimes!

I read this in the wiki format (I guess it’s mostly the same thing?) and thought it was a lot of fun, with may caveats (which is totally fine). My main criticism is that the idea of antimemetics in the book was let too loose, almost as if there are no limits whatsoever to what it can achieve, physically or psychologically, so that made it hard for me to wrap my head around the puzzle. There are basically no rules the universe of antimemetics, so the possibilities felt so massive and out of control that they did not fit into the paper so to speak. I feel like good SCP storytelling is usually harrowing but also “tangible”; there must be some set of rules that the universe adheres to so that we can join the mystery and explore the limits of what could happen (or be achieved) with that set of rules. When the effects of something are so broad that they completely rewrite the reality so as to e physically and mentally invincible/invisible, then the story feels more like a drop in an ocean rather than a complete product. Regardless, I enjoyed it!

I am among those who love GK3, but I wouldn't say it's my favorite in the series. It does have a great ambience, and really makes you feel like a tourist in rural France.

I never get why people think these things will work. The only ones who take deals like this are honest people who are struggling. Criminals don’t self deport, they want to stay, not leave. It’s the same in Europe, they make laws to deport people for small bureaucratic details, honest people say “yes sir” and leave, but the criminals don’t give a shit, they just stay. So you deport the good ones and keep the bad ones, what the hell do you get from that? I guess the real point is that nobody in politics really cares about illegal aliens and criminals, they only want the power that comes from populism.