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0 pointsTacticalCoder1mo ago0 comments

> Seems pretty good so far, ...

I'm not sure about "good".

These horrible analogies though scream AI-generated content. LinkedIn is full of such crap: AI apparently atm loves to sprinking short sentences of the form: "The X is the Y. The A is the B." or "It's not C. It's D". when making analogies.

Everything has to be a "pattern": things cannot be described on their own. There needs to be a connection to something else for it to explain something: we're talking computers? We must somehow cram in the similitude with a four-strokes combustion engine.

I mean: how is fine-tuning a program or some heuristics not the same as a variable valve-timing motor engine feature?

"It's not fixed valve-timing we're dealing with. It's a variocam!".

If you ask me I find it really tiring already.

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mirzap1mo ago· 1 in thread

I’m more interested in the topic myself. Do you have any recommended reads (besides the usual ones - tldp, kernel docs, linux foundation, etc)?

valyala1mo ago

https://lwn.net is a goldmine of great contents about Linux kernel.

Let me explain why I post links to posts from https://internals-for-interns.com . I hate AI slop. The author of these posts uses AI for generating these posts - this is clearly visible via AI-generated images, emojis and em dashes. But the posts themselves do not contain misleading slop you could see in a typical AI-generated content. These posts are very clear and accurate. While they contain some inaccuracies and mistakes, the number of these mistakes is very low. These posts help learning and understanding complex technical topics such as internals of Go, filesystems, databases and linux kernel, by reading a clear easy to understand text.

It is important to differentiate between low-quality AI slop and high-quality contents generated with the help of AI. The posts at https://internals-for-interns.com belong to the second category.

While at it, I recommend reading the article from ClickHouse author on how to properly use AI - https://clickhouse.com/blog/agentic-coding .

gchamonlive1mo ago

You should be reading a more formal document, seems to me you are just not the target audience. You disliking the analogies and getting tired at it for not getting to the point doesn't necessarily mean the text is bad, because that's too much of a narrow view in which to criticise a text that is clearly almost a social communication piece of sorts.

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