| The evidence is in all of the text. It is dripping with it. The cadence, the abuse of headers, the abuse of bullet points, "not X, but Y" multiple places it doesn't make sense. > automation isn't lazy. it's sustainable: [bullet points] A software developer did not write that. I would bet my entire net worth on that if the bet could be arbitrated objectively, at virtually any odds, because it would be free money. > the people using kaneo aren't just users. they're: [bullet points]. they're not demanding. they're engaged. that's a *gift*. This vomit-inducing sappy "gift" line, too. > them kaneo > cloud-hosted self-hosted (your data, your server) > closed source open source (you can read every line) > feature-rich minimal (does one thing well) > subscription free (as in freedom and beer) Wow, this looks just like the completely unnecessary comparison table you get any time someone prompts an LLM for a comparison! How much money would you feel comfortable betting "open source (you can read every line)" was written by a human software developer? > someone stars your repo → feels good An entire paragraph of these ultra-terse "x -> y", under a bold header "the emotional reality", also reeks of LLM output. The evidence is overflowing, you simply aren't familiar enough to recognise it. Which sounds like a nice state of being, admittedly. Ignorance is bliss. I, personally, am absolutely sick of seeing this LLM spam on HN. |
Your comment made me register for a HN account for the first time ever in my life (I have been lurking since 2009/2010).
I did not even think to consider that the OP's submission was AI and I felt dirty, violated and even saddened that a developer home page; something I long assumed in my 35 year old mind to be sacred, technical and a place where you could read honest thoughts about programming was now polluted with genAI.
I always treated them like open source docs or linux contribs pages or deeply technical or academic sites where you could 100% definitely trust that the developer would not waste your time or tell lies.
I think this episode has finally made me decide to go video only, f2f meetings or just zero-out reading from my life.
Just thought you should know what your comment did for me. The whole post now reads cheap, like they didn't value or care about what they said or how readers would feel.
- Ximmer