You’re reading a personal blog and complaining about an open source personal project he runs and distributes for free. He’s allowed to talk about his personal work on his personal blog. Especially considering the cli utility he talks about is directly related to the post.
Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.
He’s a talented developer who is selling nothing and wrote a post on his personal blog about a newly released LLM and mentioned that he used his own tooling to call the API.
He isn’t selling anything in this post (go ahead and show me where in the post I can buy something. A clearly delineated “sponsored by” sentence exists outside of the post, but does not in any way fit the definition of spam). Look into his reputation and blog history, it’s just him talking about what he is passionate about.
I’m only defending Simon because truly independent, non commercial work like his blog is incredibly rare and should be encouraged and not shit on by drive by commenters who can’t be bothered to distinguish between spam and actual content.
If you want to complain about spammers, find some spam first.
Someone posting content frequently isn’t a spammer if the content is valued. The fact that users here typically vote his posts right to the top and the discussions that ensue show that his posts are quite popular and valued.
You not liking the content does not make it spam. Simon being prolific with making new content does not make it spam. Someone sharing their work in a place that it is popular does not make it spam. Self promotion is not necessarily spam.
If you think that popular blog posts about technical subjects are spam, you should get off of HN since that is a huge part of the value of this site.
> Someone posting content frequently isn’t a spammer if the content is valued
Yes, he's still a spammer even if you personally like everything he posts and comments. Most users on this forum simply aren't allowed to post their own links that often. He's clearly exempt from this rule because a significant portion of the site's audience is as much of an AI maximalist as he is.
You’re reading a personal blog and complaining about an open source personal project he runs and distributes for free. He’s allowed to talk about his personal work on his personal blog. Especially considering the cli utility he talks about is directly related to the post.
Imagine complaining about someone generating valuable content for free and not packaging it to your personal tastes.