Anything beyond this is usually a play to trap you into an ecosystem. No reason to adopt any of these frameworks, especially if you already have a mature workflow system.
Given that this space is so rapidly evolving, these kinds of posts are helpful just to make sure you aren't missing anything big. I've caught myself doing something the hard way after reading one of these. In this case, the framing is basically man pages for CLIs was a helpful description of sills that gives me some ideas about how to improve interaction with an in-house CLI my co. uses.
Yeah I like to think not everyone can spend their day exploring/tinkering with all these features so it's handy to just snapshot what exists and what works/doesn't.
As a technologist, you should always avoid MS. Even if they have a best-in-class solution for some domain, they will use that to leverage you into their absolute worst-in-class ecosystem.
I see Amazon using a subset of the same sorts of obfuscations that Microsoft was infamous for. They just chopped off the crusts so it's less obvious that it's the same shit sandwich.
I did angular for many years and just recently came back to doing frontend work for a recent project. This is my experience with react, its not perfect and there are a few react-isms to learn, but it tends to make you do the right thing.
At one point I also moved from Angular to React, after moving from Backbone to Angular, and from "just" jQuery + jQuery UI to Backbone. After moving to React, I haven't found the need to move to something else, most of the alternatives are marginal improvements, while the difference before and after React is pretty drastic.
I use them occasionally and have never been falsely accused of being an LLM.
The stakes are a bit different for students unfortunately, who who’ll have their writing passed through some snake oil AI detector arbitrarily. This is unfortunate because “learning how not to trigger an AI detector” is a totally useless skill.
Generally, I don’t think we need AI detection. We need dumb bullshit detection. Humans and LLMs can both generate that. If people can use an LLM in a way that doesn’t generate dumb bullshit, I’m happy to read it.
I think this is a passing phase - academia and the education system will have to adapt to the fact that LLMs exist and will be used, and that therefore the essay is no longer a useful artifact as evidence of learning. This is probably a good thing in the long run.
yeah but writing an essay over the course of a week and over the course of two hours are entirely different experiences -- and the first one is the one that's usually useful in post-graduate life
Same. Years ago I took the time to learn the difference between an em-dash, an en-dash, and a hyphen and I'll continue to use them regardless of what AI does.
I don't use AI in my writing. If I were still in school would I be tempted? Probably. But in work and personal writing? Never crosses my mind.
For me, learning the difference between em-dash, en-dash, and hyphen, and what each of them was supposed to be used for was a side-effect of learning LaTeX.
I agree completely with this as a human reader - but do wonder about the gradual codification of these markers in systems that will have increasingly have LLM detection as a standard feature, as frequently and obviously enabled as spam detectors were on blog comments back when blogs had comments.
I wish I had the courage to post and talk like this more. I really resonated with the authors words as these kinds of feelings make up a lot of my internal monologuing some days.
