Hackers' Pub

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`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
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`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Bill Plein🌶 @bplein@bvp.me

4/11/2025, 2:06:01 AM

Public

I am seeing more and more folks pop into forums (for example a car discord) asking for advice on, say tires, and then saying “I asked an LLM/AI/GPT and it says X”, non ironically.

They want humans to validate the LLM for them. Too lazy to do it themselves. Not experienced enough to ask the LLM for citations, too lazy to review the citations if they were given any.

People are lazy and LLMs are not helping the lazy people. They think it’s helping. It’s just making things worse.

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