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by sebmellen 75 days ago
We live in the golden age of slop. It seems a surprisingly small number of people have the visceral AI disgust response.
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Maybe that visceral response being against the rules (assume good faith) and actively being punished explains the small number of people doing it?
My visceral AI disgust response here is just a subset of my more general lazyly-slapped-together-without-sufficient-testing-or-other-review disgust response. If it doesn't look bad in that way, whether hand-made or ghostwritten, then I'll not react to it that way. But if someone can't be bothered to do a simple clean-up pass on that documentation, what mess could they have left in the code too?

As far as I'm concerned the social contract (“the rules”) has already been broken by people taking insufficient care, and my reaction to that is a healthy one from the PoV of self-preservation. Acting in good faith works both ways, or it doesn't.

>Acting in good faith works both ways, or it doesn't.

Well said, polluting hacker news with low effort slop for self promotion cannot be good faith. The rules are enforced on commenters but good faith is not expected for submissions somehow