I have seen something similar in a site I work on

There (1) is more context on this topic, where author of LLMs.txt idea said 'llms.txt files have nothing to do with crawlers or big LLM companies. They are for individual client agents to use.'

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058870

+1, this is my use case as well

Next time you post a HN comment, try audibly sighing or pausing for 137 milliseconds first?

The RFC is a joke, if you couldn't tell. Those are quotes from the text :)

This is interesting and I'm not sure what to make of it. Devil's advocate: the person operating the AI also was "trained with the code," is that materially different from them writing it by hand vs. assisted by an LLM? Honestly asking, I hadn't considered this angle before.

If you worked at Microsoft and had access to the Windows source code you probably should not be contributing to WINE or similar projects as there would be legal risk.

So for this case, not much different legally. Of course there is the practical difference just like there is between me seeing you with my own eyes and me taking a picture of you.

"Training" an LLM ist not the same as training a human being. It a metaphor. Its confusing the save icon with an actual floppy disk.

I can say I "trained" my printer to print copyrighted material by feeding it bits but that that would be pure sophism.

Problem is that law hasn't really caught up the our brave new AI future yet so lots of decisions are up in the air. Plus governments incentivized to look the other way regarding copyright abuses when it comes to AI as they think that having competitive AI is of strategic importance.

> "Training" an LLM ist not the same as training a human being. It a metaphor. Its confusing the save icon with an actual floppy disk.

Maybe? But the design of the floppy disk is for data storage and retrieval per se. It can't give you your bits in a novel order like an LLM does (by design). From what I can tell in this case, the output is significantly differentiated from the source code.

Better than 90% of the slop that gets ladled into the front page, bravo. The world needs more Clock Simulator-like projects.

Thank you very much!

It’s AI booster fanfic, but it’s well-written so kudos. The charts are slop though.

This team is at Stanford, unless I’m reading the article incorrectly. Still awful that the US pulled out of WHO.

Ah yep, I read the story elsewhere earlier that insinuated it was a team outside of the US

That's the sad part. Empiricism is scarce when people and companies are incentivized to treat their AI practices as trade secrets. It's fundamentally distinct from prior software movements which were largely underwritten by open, accessible, and permissively-licensed technologies.

I don't see people treating AI practices as trade secrets. It's just the nature of a non-deterministic system.

Can you update the title? "Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?" sounds like you're seeking verifiable data, but in your post you're soliciting advice for how to use these tools. I clicked hoping for empiricism and got the same hamster wheel of "you're holding it wrong" that I see in every social media comment section about AI tooling.

Heads up: I clicked a tile and got the hamsterdance music pretty loud in my ears. Serves me right for being distracted during a meeting but still, sound warning :)

...was your mic muted during this meeting??