That's a curious one, Twitter is worthless anyway. Before AI bots proliferated, the change to rank paid accounts high in replies turned it into a de facto entry level $8/month advertising tier.

In this case the point is that they accompany the new flood of low-effort self-promoted shovelware vibecode projects.

Are you joking? The facts and references are the part we know it will hallucinate.

You can check the references.

If you had a choice would you sign your younger self up for a future with no internet anonymity or privacy?

False dichotomy.

That's like asking why McDonald's doesn't improve the quality of their hamburger. They can, but only within the bounds of mass produced cheap crap that maximizes profit. Otherwise they'd be a fundamentally different kind of company.

We shouldn't be giving participation trophies to people who slept through world history class and then fall for recycled demagoguery about how it's the poor who are sucking up all the wealth and not the rich.

Well “believe them” seems to have been a system that survived a few hours. Unsurprising.

We don't know if it will take the form of a net drop in headcount at all, or if white collar labor will be broadly replaced with the same headcount of low paid fungible AI operators.

But we can say that mass displacement of labor in one form or another is the goal because it's the only way to explain the amount of investment that's going into it.

What work do you imagine a "low paid fungible AI operator" would perform, out of curiosity?

Wanting to be ahead of the next hype-cycle narrative is plenty for a lot of speculative investors.

This is the same stupid reasoning that told us Trump would be a good outcome because the system was imperfect and ruining it fully would magically create a better one.

What the hell?

I didn't say this was a good thing, I only said things were already fucked. And Trump is also a symptom of a deeper rot in our system. He just happens to be the asshole who took advantage of it.

If you don't fix the deeper issues, it doesn't matter what's going to happen. Blaming AI is blaming a symptom, not the cause.

Stating that we need to fix the deeper problem isn't even close to the same thing as whatever this nonsense is you responded with.

Look at his submission history, nothing but self promotion. His entire presence here is just an ad.

You both need to take this stuff to hn@ycombinator.com instead of hashing it out here. I think you're wrong, but either way: stop crudding up the threads when all you've got to say is "this person submitted their own post". People do that all the time.

Again: if you think they've crossed the line, the guidelines specifically ask you not take to the threads with it. Mail Dan and Tom. They'll get back to you quickly.