It doesn’t read like shaming to me. It’s, in the grand scheme of HN comments, definitely on the more constructive side of the criticism. Maybe it could have been reworded, but I think the author of the post could very easily find it actionable in the future. I too had to stop reading the article at that point, so I think if the author wants more people to read, my advice for them is to just write like themselves. We’ve entered the start of a new Instagram filter age where many people feel they need to have LLMs reword their writing presumably for the same reasons as the original filter age. I share OC’s sentiment of pushing against the recent trend of implicitly shaming people for their individualistic writing styles.

Only because so many of the articles posted on HN now are AI-written, and badly, too. A lot of tech people are so impressed with LLMs’ capabilities in code that they fail to recognize how bad they are at writing enjoyable prose. And it feels like a chore to write out a whole blog post by hand when the machine could do it for you! But the result we get is so, so much worse and more annoying.