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I honestly consider it lazy pattern-matching commenting slop if people don’t look at the actual software being described, don’t run it, don’t even open the sect

by EGreg 14d ago

I honestly consider it lazy pattern-matching commenting slop if people don’t look at the actual software being described, don’t run it, don’t even open the sections of the webpage that describe how it works. I understand why… people are inundated with more content than ever. Even if it is a huge breakthrough, most won’t care and will just keep posting in a TL;DR way. I hoped that many on HN would actually take this for a spin. It’s free and MIT-licensed. And if you serve any websites in PHP (as 70% of all websites are), you owe it to yourself to save money and serve more users on one machine. I mean, seriously, this lets you build a PHP app that serves 40,000 users on a $5/month machine. You’d raise your Series A before you need another machine LOL

mpalmer 14d ago
I admit I did not expect an accusation of laziness. Your README makes it harder to understand why your project is unique, why the things it says are good are actually good. It's inscrutable LLM marketing-speak that suggests you had very little involvement in the content. Do you understand why that matters to someone deciding whether to run something you vibe coded? I was hoping you might address the criticism rather than get defensive. It seems more likely that you are unwilling to defend the content you published.
- EGreg 14d ago
  If I was unwilling to defend it, why did I sit for 30 mins on an iPhone and personally type all the substantive replies to toplevel comments in this thread?
  - bbg2401 14d ago
    Your replies are directly from an LLM too. Amongst other tells, “it’s free and MIT” stated as a noteworthy feature gives strong “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes. You’ve mentioned the mass of sloppy content you know we’re drowning in. Throwing more slop our way isn’t likely to help things. Take the ideas from your generated work so far and put your own intellect to work on it. Find someone to bounce ideas off. You might find it fun, and it might provide some human interest worthy of a new HN post in future.
    - EGreg 14d ago
      I literally wrote them on an iPhone myself. So I now suspect your entire LLM-dar lol

by EGreg 14d ago

mpalmer 14d ago

I admit I did not expect an accusation of laziness. Your README makes it harder to understand why your project is unique, why the things it says are good are actually good. It's inscrutable LLM marketing-speak that suggests you had very little involvement in the content. Do you understand why that matters to someone deciding whether to run something you vibe coded? I was hoping you might address the criticism rather than get defensive. It seems more likely that you are unwilling to defend the content you published.

EGreg 14d ago
If I was unwilling to defend it, why did I sit for 30 mins on an iPhone and personally type all the substantive replies to toplevel comments in this thread?
- bbg2401 14d ago
  Your replies are directly from an LLM too. Amongst other tells, “it’s free and MIT” stated as a noteworthy feature gives strong “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes. You’ve mentioned the mass of sloppy content you know we’re drowning in. Throwing more slop our way isn’t likely to help things. Take the ideas from your generated work so far and put your own intellect to work on it. Find someone to bounce ideas off. You might find it fun, and it might provide some human interest worthy of a new HN post in future.
  - EGreg 14d ago
    I literally wrote them on an iPhone myself. So I now suspect your entire LLM-dar lol