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> a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars

This is going to get abused so fast, it will make your head spin.

EDIT: I just look up the highest-ranking "buy GitHub stars" page (which I will obviously not link here), and it looks like you would have to pay a little over $1000 to get the required amount of stars. So I suppose it might not get abused as easily as I thought.

On the other hand, someone with the gumption and elbow grease to abuse this process themselves could still easily do so, I'd wager.

All that being said, I still think that GitHub stars are effectively worthless, and attempting to assign value to them like this is, at best, a fool's errand.

I can imagine this will invoke Goodhart's law, increasing the amount of people shilling their AI-generated shovelware onto a Web already greatly suffering from the consequences of the plummeting cost of intelligent-sounding text generation.


PHB = pointy-haired boss?

Yes. It seems to be the term that stands out the most, as terms like "AI coding assistant", "agentic coding framework", etc. are too vague to really differentiate these tools.

"harness" fits pretty nicely IMO. It can be used as a single word, and it's not too semantically overloaded to be useful in this context.


Yes, it is also a device used to control the movement of work animals, which farmers have been using for ages before QA came on to the scene.

This is like the third or fourth time this has happened to them.

The Manjaro team has also caught flak for a bunch of other stuff. There's a page or two our there that detail the issues, which I'm too lazy to link here.

But let's just say this isn't their first rodeo.


Going to play devil's advocate and say that they make minimal to no revenue off of their website so it being down is not a huge deal.

It's exactly the opposite to what happens if the the main ad server for a company in the ad serving business looks at things.

Or another example:

From an inventory management perspective, it's ok to be out of stock for low margin items b/c the opportunity cost is low.


> Going to play devil's advocate and say that they make minimal to no revenue off of their website so it being down is not a huge deal.

How much revenue they make doesn't matter if it impacts users. Prospective users need to be able to see what they are getting and download and verify ISOs from the team.

I despise ZorinOS for what they are doing in many ways that violate software licenses, but one thing they got right is charging users and being somewhat accountable to their userbase.


> There's a page or two our there that detail the issues, which I'm too lazy to link here.

https://manjarno.pages.dev/ (hasn't been updated yet)


Agreed. This is not the first time Manjaro has made a boneheaded mistake, nor will it be the last. This is just the most recent.

The page is pretty nitpicky with its issues. There is only 1 that was actually something to concern over iirc.

And praying that your desired output was embedded into the training data that was used to generate the model.

Well, that depends on which cryptocurrency is used, doesn't it?

> TFA most commonly refers to Trifluoroacetic acid, a highly persistent, mobile "forever chemical" (PFAS) found globally in water and soil, widely used in organic chemistry as a solvent.

"hackernews TFA" get better search skills.

When I searched for "its in the tfa meaning" this was my third result on Duck Duck Go:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19781756

When I searched for "tfa internet meaning", The fifth result looked helpful so I clicked it, and it was:

https://www.noslang.com/search/tfa

Searching the internet wasn’t hard before AI, and it isn’t hard today.


I just googled "what is tfa", and none of the results on the first page were related to the current topic.

But surely your search engine must have given you the answer within your first three clicks, if not, perhaps you should consider a better search engine.

Try “TFA acronym Internet forums”.

You must be one of those “AI can’t possibly make anyone more productive” folks.

Don’t know about your parent, but I am certainly on of those “AI can’t make anyone more productive”.

Well, at least I would say that while being a bit hyperbolic. But folks like us who prefer to see claims by corporations trying to sell you stuff backed by behavioral research before we start taking the corporation’s word for it.


Wearing a seatbelt will not protect you from all kinds of car accidents.

Yes. That's why you don't put a Clown behind the steering wheel.

It is more like getting in the car with Stuntman Mike. The risk is not that the driver might make a mistake but that it actively turns against you and a container is not a security boundary against an adversary.

"Because it was a 50-50 shot on whether you'd be going left or right [...]"

Yeah, that about sums up how terrifying it is to give these agents so much access to things.


Tesla Robotaxi says hold my beer

Wearing a helmet will not protect you from all injuries caused by jumping off a cliff.

Point is, don't jump off a cliff.


The nature of these tools is that you tell them not to jump off a cliff, so they ride the bicycle over it. Or a car. Or "you're completely right. I assumed it was possible to fly". Or...

or you pass by graffiti telling it to jump off a cliff, written in iambic pentameter (or whatever is the jailbreak meta of the month)

Well, there was Picoclaw, but I think it was renamed to Clawlet.

That's old news. Now there's Plancklaw, renamed to ∅. It has no code base, no bugs, no security issues, infinitely scalable, and all the features of every other *claw.

Well actually there is ROE.md, no code, just a Markdown file to generate a claw.

The code is always generated using the latest LLM, ensuring that it takes advantage of the latest architectures and programming language features.

You joke but thats the accelerationists' dream

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