HN has always been a tense standoff between a few cliques, the first two being the ostensibly intended audience;
* competent and curious engineers
* entrepreneurs, who live on a continuum where one end is...
* ...hucksters and snake-oil purveyors, of which there are plenty, and
* (because this is the Internet) conspiracy theorists and other such loons
and recently
* political provocateurs
You can make a thread work (for that group of people) if it self-selects who reads it. Unfortunately, AI is catnip to all five of these groups, so the average thread quality is exceptionally low – it serves all five groups badly.
Whether some of these people _should_ be served well is a separate question.
binoct's comment is not "pointing out BS" - that requires that you, y'know, actually point out things. binoct's comment is sneering, without any content or thought. Pure fluff.
* competent and curious engineers
* entrepreneurs, who live on a continuum where one end is...
* ...hucksters and snake-oil purveyors, of which there are plenty, and
* (because this is the Internet) conspiracy theorists and other such loons
and recently
* political provocateurs
You can make a thread work (for that group of people) if it self-selects who reads it. Unfortunately, AI is catnip to all five of these groups, so the average thread quality is exceptionally low – it serves all five groups badly.
Whether some of these people _should_ be served well is a separate question.