Comment by magicalist

19 days ago

Not unique at all. eg a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840

The difference is context: that link is a service saying they're having to make some changes, because of AI crawlers.

The context here is it's a HN post about someone being excited about AI bringing them back to coding, in response to a comment on that HN post with someone else being excited about the useful things they've been able to do about AI.

In that context, it's a unique choice to respond with a load of confrontational and rhetorical questions about AI being bad because crawlers and cloudflare outages. It reads like the they just wanted 2 excited programmers to feel bad about themselves for using AI. It's not really the sort of response I'd expect here.