He's not engaging in a discussion with you, he's just re-posting a troll comment frequently spammed on various platforms whenever somebody discusses China. It's an attempt to turn a good faith discussion into a race debate.

I'd say the fact that it mentions a relatively obscure project specifically.

Yes, specifically this.

That product came out recently so will be top of mind. And maybe was the final straw for the OP when trying to find something to focus on?

Edited out the name, for you.

Cant even be authentic in the internet anymore without being flagged as advertisement or an AI bot, jeez

With all my respect, I wasn't trying to piss on your post, only to communicate how it reads. On the subject — this wave of tech is intensely overwhelming, I feel you too.

And often it is hard to see exact value that you can create.

Having said this, it would probably lead to even more interesting music, art and all the things you mentioned, because the bar was raised.

> Cant even be authentic in the internet anymore without being flagged as advertisement or an AI bot, jeez

The sad state we got ourselves into..

I still use Snow Leopard on a high-spec 2008 Mac Pro for most of my personal projects. Works a charm and is fast as ever.

> This comes off as childish to me and makes me think that I'd rather not contribute to the project.

It's unfortunately the new normal, with FFmpeg's core team acting similarly. No doubt the result of what is considered socially acceptable expanding in ways it probably shouldn't.

that is a view many hold, until its their own time being wasted. Consider the responsibility these people have and take on their shoulders, only for a bunch of idiots to consider their AI slop worthy of pissing up and down their face. Most of them probably even know its just AI slop spraying spree

Many people deal with worse every day and don't resort to acting like a child.

I feel there should be a database of shibboleths such as this as it would really change how you look at anything written on the internet.

The wikipedia page Signs of AI Writing is quite a good one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

But it's a game of whackamole really, and already I'm sure I'm reading and engaging with some double-digit percentage of entirely AI-written text without realising it.

> There’s a clear pattern to items that get flagged (those that are critical of right wing causes in particular, Musk, DOGE, ICE etc)

Have you considered that it could be that left wingers are more likely to submit political posts on a technology forum rather than right wingers only flagging left wing posts?

Your faulty assumption is that any criticism of DOGE, ICE etc is automatically “left wing”. Not true.

My point is not a left vs right one, it’s that topics like DOGE are worthy of discussion on HN. They are absolutely tech relevant. Many other topics with a tech angle are left up, but those are not. It’s not difficult to see why.

It's very cult like and no doubt a result of people unconsciously (or not) absorbing the endless spam of Bluesky screenshots (that always follow the mindless catchphrase/black and white logic pattern) you see on every other popular "social media" platform.

Who are you to say LLMs have never provided value to the user? I last used an agent earlier today and it finished a job that would've taken me a lot longer to complete without assistance.

Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The end result is interesting but I'd prefer the blog entry itself to be human-written.

Thank you for the honest feedback! I'll stick to writing content by hand for future blog posts.