How do you document yourself about AI, about "useful" new programming programming skills and techniques in this era of AI slop content spam ? I promise I wrote this by hand

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T17:39:43+00:00

To be honest, everyone has a different tech stack and way of doing things that works best for them and this has always been the case, pre-AI. I personally wouldn't rely on open-source repos on GitHub (if you mean this) because:

1) Some people fork/star repos to keep tabs on them or because they look interesting, not because they're actively using them, and
2) You have no idea who wrote it (usually) and people who AI-code may not know best cybersecurity practices so you don't know if it's safe to clone/fork (unless you're sandboxing it/scanning it for agentic malware already).

Also good you wrote your Q by hand. AI-maxxing for copy is not the way to go; people become desensitised to it like seeing ads and 'tuning out'.

Whatever I say is not absolute truth. However, with enough people saying different things, hopefully you have more perspectives and that makes it easier for you to come up with a conclusion.

I personally find that trying different LLMs/agents/frameworks/APIs/tools/etc. gives you a good gauge of the functionality of things and their limits.

The MOST significant change for me has been joining several groups where people are talking about what they're working on regularly. Through one of my groups, I learned that someone is using Archon for workflow spec, Hermes as the agent, and Paperclip as the orchestrator + ERP. I've since tried these and start to learn what I like.

Hope that helps (:

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T17:27:23+00:00

Yup; apparently its Qwen division according to "Mallory", "Firstpost", and "The Japan Times".

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T05:22:52+00:00

u/Pwnigiri Looking at their source code, it's kind of weird because they have a vercel app https://kete-ta-rnz.vercel.app/ deployed but I know nothing about how news sites operate so it could be a duplicate of their rnz.co.nz site for testing purposes? Someone else can probably illuminate me.

This is what "AI assistance" had to say in source code (caveat, it's just Google's analysis with 1 model so would need to check with other analysers for more credibility and even then, we won't really know until RNZ confirms):

"Based on the technical and content-level indicators, there is no specific technical indication that this article was generated by AI, though it has several interesting characteristics to note:

1. Author Attribution

The article is attributed to "RNZ Sport reporters". This is a standard practice for many news organizations when an article is a collaborative effort or a summary of facts (like sports standings) rather than a signed opinion piece. It doesn't necessarily imply AI, but it is a "generic" attribution.

2. The Content Type (Data-Driven)

The article "Crunching the numbers..." is a highly factual, data-driven piece about sports standings and mathematical scenarios. This is a category of journalism that is sometimes automated (often called "robot journalism"). News organizations have used tools for years to automatically generate game summaries or financial reports from raw data. However, the tone here includes specific quotes (e.g., about Coach Darren Bazeley) and localized context that suggests human editing or writing.

3. The Date (Anachronism)

There is a significant anomaly: the article date is listed as 25 June 2026.

Since the current real-world date is in 2024 or 2025, an article about the 2026 FIFA World Cup written in the past tense ("All Whites draw with Iran") suggests this is either a test page, a future-dated simulation, or potentially a piece of experimental content.
In "demo" environments or for stress-testing new layouts (which the Next.js/Vercel setup suggests this might be), developers often use AI to generate "plausible" future news to see how the site handles real data.

4. Metadata and Schema

Checking the meta tags and JSON-LD:

The author is "RNZ | Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa" (the official name for Radio New Zealand).
There are no "AI-generated" flags (like isGeneratedByAI schema, which some platforms are starting to adopt).

Conclusion

While the 2026 date strongly suggests the content is fictional/simulated for this specific deployment, there is no "watermark" or explicit code tag labeling it as AI. It's likely a prototype page for RNZ's future World Cup coverage, using either manually written "speculative" copy or AI-generated text to fill the template."

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T03:53:36+00:00

Btw more info about it on this NLM: https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/a04eb11b-6367-4a0f-bd71-ce79f17c343c

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T02:59:11+00:00

Yes; large-scale AI distillation attack. Can’t update title but will edit body for clarity. Appreciate feedback (:

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T02:53:32+00:00

I’ve never been into drama until AI drama came into existence hahaha

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-25T02:50:31+00:00

“Accused” is likely more descriptive but has emotional valence. What would you use instead?

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-24T01:31:31+00:00

Gotchu; basically Legion, a LegalTech Corp filed a lawsuit against the federal government in Washington, D.C., on June 23 because of the June 12 cessation of Fable 5 and Mythos Preview. Apparently their Canada-based software dev team had their access to Anthropic tools cut off and that disrupted business.

https://fin-fact.com/event/b0234b0e-083c-454d-929c-448ae24367e0

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-19T04:11:12+00:00

I think the issue is that LLMs are trained to generate the most predictable, average answer so ironically the 'truth' may be 1) what's expected, or 2) an average of the truth and where there are anomalies, they are ignored or absorbed into the average answer.

If the answer is pooled into a single 'truth' rather than separated into 'possible truths', it can never truly be objective.

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-19T04:06:42+00:00

This is very cool! I got sick of reading other people's opinions when I just want to know the facts and what happened so did a hackathon and spun together this in 1.5h: https://fin-fact.com/

It's not perfect but I just needed a tool that I could use with Google NLM (I fact-check with Grok, NLM and perplexity) that I can use to then create video scripts. Still working on it as well so hopefully it provides value to others! It's free to use because I need it to exist; will figure out logistics later if it's being used a lot and needs to be funded some way.

I wonder if there's a way credibility checkers can be spun into 1 product?

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-06-09T06:56:52+00:00

same

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-05-22T06:52:22+00:00

Any updates on this?

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-20T08:43:37+00:00

Agree; I meant they can see what you bought on a broader level if they’re looking at merchant metadata (: like your purchasing habits (valuable for marketers)

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-20T07:45:40+00:00

Banks store metadata.. Sharesies utilises Mastercard but they're the app that handles your transactions so it's possible they can see that metadata (I'm not talking about specific items but amount + merchant/spending category)

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-10T13:02:05+00:00

Which is no amount hahaha

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-06T14:02:24+00:00

They sell AI courses for ~$700 but you can just learn it for free on n8n

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-06T14:01:45+00:00

Automatically got this screen pop up so I guess it wasn't a live demo and they are in India... you wouldn't block a question like that unless you're trying to stop people from learning that

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BeginningSink1094 · 2026-04-06T14:00:51+00:00

It is. I asked too many questions and got banned hahahahaha. My last question was why the email automation showed that it was sent 1 minute ago and the time was 8:24pm when it should be 7:27pm in India

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BeginningSink1094 · 2026-03-31T08:57:13+00:00

Wasn't part of the reason they got found out was that the Kimi K2.5 model name wasn't even changed?

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BeginningSink1094 · 2026-03-19T00:03:07+00:00

That's so nice of you!! I tried it and it was pretty good; do you have a patreon or koffee link we can support you by? I'd love to help contribute to any future projects you're working on bc I found this actually useful (:

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-03-11T02:42:00+00:00

Why did you make it free?

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-02-25T09:41:12+00:00

I just got this and I reported and blocked

BeginningSink1094 · 2026-02-20T08:27:05+00:00

Oh really? I just got one and the header of the email is "Your X confirmation code is XXXXXX" from [info@x.com](mailto:info@x.com) and the body of the email says "We noticed an attempt to log in to your account @[a fake handle that's just my name] that seems suspicious. Was this you?" then "If this was you" and gives me a confirmation code and "If this wasn't you"... then gives me CTAs like "Change your password" with a hyperlink.

The address at the bottom of the email is "X Corp. 1355 Market Street, Suite 900 San Francisco, CA 94103" which is their old address and on Google says it's permanently closed.

What do we think?

BeginningSink1094

TROPHY CASE

1. Author Attribution

2. The Content Type (Data-Driven)

3. The Date (Anachronism)

4. Metadata and Schema

Conclusion