Comment by yellowapple

> We value a human voice.

“We” value mutual intelligibility. The manic ravings and rantings of a lunatic are also a “human voice”, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're of particular value.

> Code is different. Outside of hobbies, code is not a form of self-expression.

For the vast majority of people here, commenting on Hacker News is also a hobby. The comparison to code formatting is more relevant than you think.

> What are we even debating, then?

Just because I don't feel the need to use AI to edit my comments doesn't mean that's true of everyone. Seems pretty selfish of me to insist that “I don't need it therefore you shouldn't have it”.