Is this any different than pre-ai?

Honesty dies first.

I have zero doubt that AI v Humans will be the Battlefield of the future. It sounds so idiotic and lunatic but here we are...

finally in 2026 the why not rsync comment would even make to paul graham more sense than the dropbox pitch

Exactly. And I kind of believe that anyone citing that comment in 2026 has either been asleep, or does it more to take part on the HN cool in-group than for the substance of it.

Why not rsync rahrah remember guys? You know the one right guys rahrah

Would it make a difference?

The AI world moves at a blistering pace. Academic publishing does not. In this particular case the "random dude on HN" is probably six to nine months ahead of the academic publication, not in the sense of being that much smarter but literally just being that much further progressed through time relative to the academic publication pipeline.

Accuracy is relevant though, and testing your assumptions before heading out, or keeping track of the particular changes (if any) aroudn what you're publishing is another thing.

Still, you have a more valid point :). Publishing is about publishing, not necessarily progress.

I just want folks on HN to remember they might be the cutting edge, or the tip of the arrow more times than they realize.

Scientists are just random dudes (though some of them have been given a fancy hat by a university, which is a recognised mark of accomplishment).

Oh, HN is not random folks at all.

I wish the quiet folks who speak up from time to time would do it more often - I get to learn so much.

Not knowing is a gift in a way, we get to ask, learn.

Pretending is the disease.

we should give a little more credit to the readership of HN. I'm not sure it's that much lower than the average academic publishing on arxiv.

i don't get this. isn't it contradictory to the philosophy of pi to start as slick as possible?

Yup, the context window there is only half of what you get in CC so only a weak alternative. They burned bridges with the dev community by their decision to block any other clients

They got so many things right in the beginning but now seem to lose touch with their core fan base, the developers. It's the typical corporate grind, a million competing interests arise where it's not anymore about the user but about politics and whoops, that's when you know you're not anymore a startup.

So this system prompt is always there, no matter if i'm using chatgpt or azure openai with my own provisioned gpt? This explains why chatgpt is a joke for professionals where asking clarifying questions is the core of professional work.

The system prompt is there if you use a chat app like ChatGTP. The system prompt is one of the things that controls the behavior of the app.

If you use an LLM endpoint in Azure OpenAI, no system prompt is in effect unless you provide one.