Comment by isx726552
9 days ago
The worst is Reddit these days.
I pretty much never even went there for technical topics at all, just funny memes and such, but one day recently I started seeing crazy AI hype stories getting posted, and sadly I made a huge mistake and I clicked on one once, and now it’s all I get.
Endless posts from subs like r/agi, r/singularity, as well as the various product specific subs (for Claude, OpenAI, etc). These aren’t even links to external articles, these are supposedly personal accounts of someone being blown away by what the latest release of this or that model or tool can do. Every single one of these posts boils down to some irritating “game over for software engineers” hype fest, sometimes with skeptical comments calling out the clearly AI-generated text and overblown claims, sometimes not. Usually comments pointing out flaws in whatever’s being hyped are just dismissed with a hand wave about how the flaw may have been true at one time, but the latest and greatest version has no such flaws and is truly miraculous, even if it’s just a minor update for that week. It’s always the same pattern.
There’s clearly a lot of astroturfing going on.
> There’s clearly a lot of astroturfing going on.
Yeah I think so too. I even see it here on HN
I'm just tuning it all out. The big test is just installing the damn thing and seeing what it can do. There's 0 barrier to trying it
Lo and behold, here’s a concrete example I stumbled across just a few seconds after opening Reddit again (really gotta stop doing that):
https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/s/Y52yB6Fg3A
Completely in the same boat as you, the constant bombardment on Reddit is getting really detrimental to my wellbeing at this point lol
>There’s clearly a lot of astroturfing going on.
Reddit is like 90% astroturfing, trolls, and bots.
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