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Where does the "bio" field come from? Mine says "Developer and writer" and I suppose those are both things that I am, but not very close to what I'd have put there.


I'm guessing it's annotated by an LLM. Would be a lot of thankless work otherwise, so don't really blame the author, but it means you get the occasional nonsense summary.

Edit: yeah, the "methodology" page confirms this.


> Would be a lot of thankless work otherwise

So just don't include them, rather no info than completely incorrect LLM hallucinations


Author here.

They're about 95% accurate, so not completely incorrect. I think the value of the correct ones is higher than the few incorrect ones. I manually review and fix them, but for just a fun tool, it's not practical to write 5000 eight-word bios.


Completely incorrect as in an entry being completely incorrect, not all the entries.


I started by writing them by hand, but it was taking forever to read enough of each author's blog to write a summary and topic list, so I used an LLM and then spot-checked.

I just updated yours, but let me know if you'd like something different.

https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/2...




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