Honest answer, building and maintaining a large complex project over many years. We have plenty of examples of one-shots like the 1000x slower gcc, but those don't see updates after they achieved their advertisement goal.

Maybe a little more philosophical, novelty. You can ask an LLM to write in the style of <famous author> but afaik the results are bad when you ask it to write in a novel style no-one has seen before.

Fair enough, but I don't think that's something fundamental. Agentic AI hasn't been around for many years, and many of its most enthusiastic adopters have, shall we say, attention issues, so I don't think it's odd that we don't have long term maintained wholly AI-coded projects yet.

Lack of novelty in creative tasks is largely a product of how we deliberately train them to not surprise us. AIs from a few years ago, of the sort Janelle Shane wrote about, were puny compared to today's. But they weren't instruction tuned, so they had plenty of chaotic creative energy.

Distilling your own alcohol is technically trivial and process inputs are sold readily at every supermarket. So clearly we should just allow 15 year olds to buy hard liquor since we can't stop them .. HN baffles me again again with the whole because we can't do 100% 0% is better reasoning.

There is the entirely plausible option of the NSA indirectly bankrolling them to counteract the growing number of TLS connections. We terminate your TLS for free in our server and you don't have to change anything was a sweet deal for website operators _and_ those that want to look at unencrypted traffic. Given enough sustained funding they could undercut competitors and grow to what they are today.

Guys, stop trying to solve climate change. You can't solve "wanting the wrong thing".

Can't wait for the HDR max brightness red blinking notification bubble desperately begging for your attention. Please you must look at our advertisement!

Addicts are your most loyal and exploitable customers.

Things will keep getting worse in the US as long as the current nothing is anti-competitive policies endure.

"I have nothing to hide" -> "Ok take off your cloth". Privacy is a useful social construct not some abstract mathematical concept. Everyone has stuff to hide and that's ok.

Unfortunately in practice I've never seen that line convince someone that privacy is something worth defending

What a bunch of entitled whining. How is the system to know that it's just a private conversation that won't be used in some fraudulent way? Abuse is currently rampant, yes please let's find a way to mark LLM output. The thing I'm worried about is giving the providers the power to claim provenance. Even ignoring the privacy issues, the operational hassle of having to check N providers makes these approaches at best limited. I want to see research into providing a shared public or ideally self-hostable oracle that uses some standardized method for watermark detection. Similar to asymmetric crypto where users can't reasonably find out the secret part but can do something useful with it nonetheless.

*Of text it has read the full book of, read a huge corpus of text discussing it and watched the highly successful adaption of.

We should feed a snippet of an unreleased book in a novel universe.

They are asked _once_ during browser setup, same way on iOS users are asked once during setup if they want to allow Apps to track unique IDs (memory is hazy, they did that a couple years ago). And surprise surprise IIRC 96% of users said no.