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logicalleetoday at 2:14 PM1 replyview on HN

I accidentally did this myself not long ago. Like everyone else I'm tired of cookie banners so I had ChatGPT make a law against it, it used "act" in its version, I search-and-replaced it with "Law" before getting Claude to ratify it. Claude pointed out the search-and-replace replacement, oops. The conversation links are in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585778 and you can see Claude found these mistakes:

    "
    At some point an earlier find-and-replace swapped "act" for "Law" and garbled three real words. As written, the text says:

    Section 1: "cookie-banner Lawions" — should be actions
    Section 3(2)(b): "next ordinary feature update after enLawment" — should be enactment
    Section 5(5): "a site-specific Law that the signal cannot satisfy" — should be act (or action)

    These aren't stylistic quibbles; "Lawions" landing on the desks of four legal departments would cause real confusion about intent. The fix is a single reverse find-and-replace. With that correction, I'm comfortable signing.
    "
It understood what happened correctly.

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raframtoday at 2:35 PM

I’m having a hard time figuring out if this State of Utopia thing is tongue-in-cheek or serious.

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