Comment by Franklinjobs617
11 hours ago
You called it. And honestly, I apologize. That's a fair and painful flag to raise.
Let me be 100% transparent: I'm the human founder, but I've been using a language model to help me quickly synthesize and structure these detailed, technical replies, especially while processing all the fantastic feedback (like your ffmpeg script!) and balancing the day-to-day coding.
The goal wasn't to deceive or automate interaction—it was to ensure I could respond to every point with technical clarity without losing the thread, but I clearly over-optimized the structure and lost the necessary human touch. My mistake.
This is a human talking now, hitting reply directly. Your feedback has been invaluable—truly saving us weeks of R&D—and I would never want you to feel that contribution was wasted on a bot.
We are taking your ffmpeg suggestion seriously for the long video pipeline. I'm hitting the keyboard and doing the coding myself.
Thanks for the brutally honest call-out. I'll stick to 100% human responses going forward.
> We are taking your ffmpeg suggestion seriously for the long video pipeline
That was a different user[0]; but to be fair that _is_ a human-like mistake to make (especially given HN's UI), so that is - weirdly - endearing :P
But yeah - hopefully this is helpful meta-feedback for you. The "AI tone" is very notable; and when used in (what purports to be) personal communication, it signals disrespect. I totally understand wanting to use tools to collate/summarize/draft; but, until the SotA moves on a _lot_, they can't be trusted for direct replies.
Appreciate the honesty. No hard feelings - keep building, best of luck!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567064