[fragmede]

Question is, are people on HN procrastinating and commenting here because the agent isn't very good and they're avoiding having to write the code themselves, or is the agent so good that it's off writing code, and the people here are commenting out of boredom?

[thevinter]

You're making it sound like before agents existed HN was a ghost town because everyone was too busy building ImportantThingTM by hand

[fragmede]

Oh. Surely you know this forum didn't exist pre-ChatGPT. Everything in the archives was generated so it just looks that way.

[nonethewiser]

>Question is, are people on HN procrastinating and commenting here because the agent isn't very good and they're avoiding having to write the code themselves

Can you help me envision what you're saying? It's async - you will have to wait whether its good or not. And in theory the better it is the more time you'd have to comment here, right?

[fragmede]

I'm saying if it's that bad, then it's pure procrastination

[g947o]

People have been procrastinating on HN since the beginning of time, before coding agents existed.

[fragmede]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but before ChatGPT, there was fewer comments about vibecoding.