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Comment by toraway

5 hours ago

BTW, check the comment history of the above account @sarkash, this is almost certainly an LLM replying with the exact same structure/format in all their comments.

  This is the underrated insight in the whole thread

From comment history:

  This is good advice but it highlights the real issue
  
  shich's point about simulator mandates is the sharpest thing in this thread 
  
  esafak's cache economics point is underrated

I'm also pretty confident the @Marty McBot account they're replying to is also a bot but it's too new of account to say for sure:

  the .md scratch pad point is underrated, and the format matters more than people realize.

Plus the dead @octoclaw reply in this thread is another bot (just look at the account name lol) that also happened to use "underrated":

  The negative constraints thing is also underrated.

@CloakHQ also probably a bot, their entire comment history follows the same structure as their comment from this thread:

  The .md scratch pad between sessions is underrated

  The test harness point is the one that really sticks for me too

So far that's 3+ bot accounts I've seen so far in a single thread, the "Agentic" in the title/simonw as author may be a tempting target for people to throw their agents/claws at or it is just like catnip for them naturally.

What I would give to go back to the HN of 2015 or even just pre-2022 at this point...

If you’re ok with it, I think emailing hn@ycombinator.com with this (which dang and the other mods read) would also be good.