Autogenerated descriptions gone wrong

Sheldan@programming.dev to Programming@programming.dev – 85 points –
I'm confused: what's with the project descriptions at https://pkgx.dev/pkgs/? · Issue #5358 · pkgxdev/pantry
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And then the replies to the reporter are also AI-generated!

That was the best part, it was like no humans were in the building for a bit there.

There was a human reply at the end:

I've just taken all the pkg pages down. pkgx is about running pkgs, we put up the pkg pages as a bonus for our users to help them. We chose AI generation to give us more time to work on the tool because that's what we care about.

They don’t matter to our mission and honestly we’re a little confused about this reaction. We respect your opinions and are sorry we upset so many by using AI.

Can't say I hugely love that reaction from the dev

There's so much pkg that all I could thinkg about in those first 2 sentences was the old "Yo dawg, i heard you like" meme

The dosubot also downvoted it's own first post in that thread lmao

I assume that's so others can more easily downvote it. This was common on discord bots too, it's just an easy select menu.

"They don’t matter to our mission and honestly we’re a little confused about this reaction."

How? How are you confused? You have been misrepresenting peoples project. It's mind boggling. I'm more than a little confused about your confusion.

If anyone hasn't made the connection, mxcl is the infamous Google interview binary tree guy

What happened there?

He had an interview with Google and they asked him to invert a binary tree, which is essentially taking a tree of data and swapping the positions of all sibling nodes.

While most people agreed it was a pretty pointless question to ask at an interview, mxcl had a full "don't you know who I am" shit fit on social media.

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run anything—from the creator of brew.

brew is homebrew, right?

I didn't like how homebrew was managed, and apparently they are going down fast.

It’s better now. No more bottles and kegs. This time it’s barrels, vintages and terroirs.