HN is an echo chamber of AI wrappers. Moving to Slashdot

7 points by mekod 90 days ago | 3 comments

Move fast and break things" is a lie now. This place has been softened by corporate bureaucracy. Every "Show HN" I see is either a hollow AI wrapper or an "OS" that’s just three agents talking to each other. It’s performative and empty.

I am a sociologist. I was never your "coding guy," yet I build. I’ve never taken your language wars seriously—low level, high level, Javascript—it doesn't matter. Since AI arrived, I’ve been open about being "lazy" with manual coding, but I never stopped generating ideas. I thought this platform valued original thought, but it only cares about corporate-safe jargon and intellectual posturing.

I’m not here to "karma whore" or talk in circles just to get your upvotes. I’d rather go to the X crowd, where I can gain real users and build real chaos.

I’m moving to Slashdot. I hope you find your original spirit again, but until then, enjoy your polite, sterilized echo chamber. I’m out.

Peace.

bell-cot 90 days ago |

Your account is 45 days old, and it sounds like you came to HN with many specific expectations - which we failed to meet.

Might we ask where you got those expectations? HN doesn't do much marketing, to have mislead you there. "Move fast and break things" pretty much ended in the 2010's. We've always been far politer than the current X. And karma is heavily downplayed, both by HN's UI and by the culture here.

verdverm 90 days ago |

> Every "Show HN" I see is either a hollow AI wrapper or an "OS" that’s just three agents talking to each other. It’s performative and empty.

I feel ya on this one and have been in /new trying to help, but yours is a comment which also breaks one of the rules:

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

nomilk 90 days ago |

FWIW, I've made comments on here and other social media that got high scores that later turned out to be wrong, and comments on here and other social media that got low scores (many downvotes), which later turned out to be correct (and provably/objectively/unambiguously so).

Popularity doesn't mean much, if anything. Don't worry about 'internet points'. Just chat and exchange ideas.

(note: I've heard some folks use extensions or tamper monkey scripts to remove visibility of likes/upvotes/downvotes, so they aren't unduly influenced by 'internet points', enabling them to focus solely on discourse).