Source needs to be closed too practically speaking.

But I bet AI is pretty good at analyzing binary too.

Fix your bugs!

That’s really clever and quite funny!

> what do you actually want?

A UI option would make sense. That is what most users are comfortable with.

Next: the back doors are written by the LLM!

You think we are doing well against back doors right now? Pfft.

I can go long session with it making great code.

But the first time I say “No, it should be …” it’s nearly game over. If you say it 3+ times in a row, you’re basically doomed.

Sure, you can get it to fix the bug, but it comes at the cost of future prompts often barely working.

I second that experience.

The moment I hit the "no, it should be.." point, I know it's the end of it.

Sometimes I can salvage something by asking for a summary of the work and reasoning done, and doing a fresh restart. But often times, it's manual corrections and full restart from there.

That's the wrong framing. It's to protect yourself against unhinged people. Nearly every group of people has been persecuted at some point.

Some would! But it changes the value proposition significantly. That's why it needs to be a reasonably high amount.

definitely. signal to noise on HN has always been incredibly higher than most other platforms.

Given how most forums, news forums where I live for example, are full of absolutely low-effort insults, troll posts, obvious propaganda or just well-intentioned idiots, I can't imagine the trash the mods here must encounter all the time. HN is very popular so it likely attracts a lot more shitposts than we see with showdead.

Yet, it's possible to create a new account and get un-shadow-banned after a few hours. Dunno if this speaks volumes about how great HN's mods are or if it just means that other forums a really lacking in moderation for one reason or another (like "we have shitposts but it drives up engagement").

The trouble is that HN is centralized, like most forums. So what if it stops working the way it does now? There are likely many forums like HN with good algorithms and mods, but we won't all move to the same one, we'll scatter around. There isn't even a competing HN; lobsters is for narrower subjects, reddit is trash, what else is there?

I'm all ears if you have a better idea.

Paying money for something valuable is not punishment. HN is easily worth the money to me.

Personally, I think new accounts should cost $300. It’s not a perfect solution, clearly. But it should hopefully reduce the floodgates.

But that is the cost for an old account!