Ask HN: What's slop? what's AI written text and why read/not read?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289341#49290428
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Whatโs the difference between a script-kiddy and a real ? Abstraction. You can program your whole life without learning how to meaningfully abstract problems into simpler pieces that TRULY make the problem easier to understand.
Iโm not talking about design patterns or vs . These tools can help. But to really simplify something for others, you need an intellectual empathy that many simply never figure out.
Hello to friends. Holla for tools.
๐จโ๐ป : , , and Pragmata Pro
๐ช : NotePlan
๐ง : Overcast
๐ง : Allume
๐๏ธ : Mark Two (EDC), Pen Type-B
๐ณ : Anisota
A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/โฆ/2026-09-03-i-think-โฆrag-with-grep.html
I'm still going to do an explore agent.




