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.
replyI dislike AI prose too, the cadence of it really rubs me the wrong way, but, that said we've had a lot of great, informative articles lately, written with AI help, where you just have to grit your teeth and get through them to get the underlying knowledge.
replyI don't think that commenting on every article is going to make the posters suddenly decide to go back and rewrite it by hand. Some of them probably don't even speak English natively. The comments are getting more tiresome than the AI prose at this point.
Hopefully in a year or so the LLM output won't be so janky and obvious, so this might just be a phase everyone has to pull through.