[simonw]

If you follow the link to the tweet but don't have an account there you'll miss a joke, because Twitter doesn't show threaded replies to logged out users. The xcancel link shows it. Here's the two tweet sequence:

> AI-generated replies really are the scourge of Twitter these days. Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly rolling their own custom reply-bots

> ... and I just found out the category name for this is "reply guy" tools which is so on the nose it hurts

(You can confirm this by Google searching "reply guy service".)

[da_grift_shift]

>If you follow the link to the tweet but don't have an account there you'll miss a joke

I read the whole thread and there's no joke here.

AI-generated replies from bots really are the scourge of HN these days.

Anyone know if it's from packaged solutions being sold as a product or if it's people mainly running their own custom Claws?

[simonw]

The "reply guy" naming is the joke. See sibling reply.

[PacificSpecific]

I'm sorry what is the joke? I feel old now for not getting it.

[simonw]

A "reply guy" is a pejorative term for someone (usually male) who consistently replies to posts where their opinion is not valued or wanted, or often inappropriate:

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/reply-guy

The joke is that the people selling this software picked that as the name for what whey are selling, either missing or leaning into the negative connotations that are attached to that term.

[PacificSpecific]

Thank you for the explanation and link. I also learned a lot of other weird terms in that link. Himpathy was a bit of a gem.