Why “Churn” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Not really an accurate view, and the conspiracy angle isn't helping. The output could be fine in itself, except people (arbitrarily, some could say) value the human production.…
by tescreal · Oct 31, 2026
I think I'm not speaking of the technology itself but the actual ways it's integrated into society. E.g. what is considered socially acceptable, what is given legal rights of pa…
by mlyle · Oct 31, 2026
Is this entire repo satire? It's a bunch of text files in a repo with massive churn (all new version 5!), but somehow even the technical debt 'skill' (i.e. text file) has techni…
by grey-area · Oct 31, 2026
Is he not right though? Have you not interacted with a once star senior engineer who now operates at the level of a low-quality junior because they refuse to use AI? There was a…
by guywithahat · Oct 30, 2026
At my previous place, we had to write unit tests to cover each and every line of code. So if you add 10 lines of code, you ended up writing 100 lines of unit tests, mocking this…
by mlmonkey · Oct 30, 2026
I wonder how well this would translate with a much larger model. They ran the experiments with comparatively tiny models. You would presumably need to churn a lot more tokens to…
by deepwoods · Oct 30, 2026
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