[emacdona]

I think it's debatable whether or not it's an ad. I also think it's debatable whether or not the title of the post is sensational.

BUT

It truly warms my heart to see the level of mistrust the comments in this thread show towards (a) venture capital funding and (b) anything even resembling an ad.

[esskay]

I personally didn't see it as an ad. But it's hard not to question it when you see the before and after: https://github.com/laravel/boost/pull/758/changes/589394c44a...

Thats going to make any LLM agent change from "cool, we can deploy this anywhere" to "it only works on this one specific paid service thats overkill and more expensive for basically everyone" - its deceptive more than anything.