Until you take a baby to the vaccine clinic, the nurse googles which vaccine to give at his age, and blindly trusts the highlighted AI snippet at the top.

Not a fictitious example.

I saw a doctor use AI to do some maths recently. I checked it and it was right, but trusting LLMs to do statistics is not a good idea.

Sure, but that's an incredible level of incompetence, that I can only see would be expose otherwise outside of AI use. The entire list of what vaccines to give to what age group could fit on a single piece of paper.

And much of what people use AI for now could be easily done without it. How many steps of a Claude Code /plan are just running basic ls commands, all for a few thousand tokens?

The entire thing reeks of laziness and incompetence. It's neat an all but its a giant sucking maw that is threatening to gobble up whats left of anything good.

Apparently 75% of the world's population believe in some kind of god. 60% is a low number as far as fantasy beliefs go.

Are you sure the script is actually testing the gameplay? Given it can see the entire source code of the game.

It started out using browser.click events and then switched to using browser.evaluate script injection. That's entirely valid for my use case.

Is it not safe to assume that all* publicly available prior work is in the training data?

Then you could just prompt it to propose options with pros and cons etc.

* Bar extremely new stuff from after the cutoff

Maybe but having it search first to load the context with relevant information sure gets better results

Included in the training corpus doesn’t mean perfect or even partial recall.

Congrats on the launch!

InstantDB is a joy to work with. Granted, I've only ever built small toy projects with it, but it's my go-to. Just so much simpler than anything else I've tried in this space.

The core product is so good that the AI emphasis feels weird. Hopefully that's just marketing and not a pivot. Unfortunate if that's what it takes to get funding these days.

Thank you!

We last updated our website when open sourced back in August 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322281

Back then most folks weren't building full-on apps with AI yet.

Since then we've seen a large number of people find us through content on creating apps with AI. We felt our previous messaging didn't speak to that and we thought it was time for a refresh.

We also invested a lot to make the agent experience with Instant a delight!

Thank you for the kind words.

> AI emphasis

It's not quite marketing or a pivot. We've just noticed that most of our users are coding with AI, and really optimized for that too.

I have that exact issue on a couple of not exactly low end Samsung phones. Holding them side by side with signal open. Delivery times vary wildly. Whereas WhatsApp just works (though I hate it for other reasons)

I can see why that would be incredibly frustrating. Have you reported it to them, either via github or email?

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but I did find the caveman examples harder to read than their verbose counterpart.

The verbose ones I could speed read, and consume it at a familiar pace... Almost on autopilot.

Caveman speak no familiar no convention, me no know first time. Need think hard understand. Slower. Good thing?

TBH I'd love to see that idea as a /blogs list here at HN.

> CachySteamOS

Where can I find more information on that? I use CachyOS but never heard of that. Googling didn't find a single result (surprisingly, not even your comment)

I think OP missed a slash

yeah, sorry

> ...It undermines democratic decision-making...

You can tell an intellectual came up with that definition.