Comment by sillyfluke

>It's a small tangent but I am constantly taken aback

I'm amused by your surprise.

>Its not even like its less techincal

I'd wager that, actually, it is less technical. We constantly see otherwise very techinical people here poking their heads up and admitting that they haven't been writing any code for 6 months or more, and the ones that brag about it are seemingly unaware that they've been reduced to being a technical PM (the ones that contest this probably havent worked with capable technical PMs). No one wants to engage with vibe-coded Show HN entries because the poster may not grasp the implementation. No one appears to be doing (or sharing) anything super novel with all this coding superpower they have suddenly attained so there's nothing technically interesting to talk about. The last time I found an AI application submission interesting was the one where the person was trying to turn their pet's random keyboard typing into a language (if I remember correctly).

If the guidelines banned any AI comments that didn't preface their comment with the model and version of AI they used, their application domain, and the programming language being used I'm sure there would be less contentious dorky debate and more technical/practical discussion.

And since many here don't see the endgame with AI resulting in anything good for their career or society, like the endless remote work debates, they comment because from a strategic point of view they do not want to cede the narrative to the other side on such an important topic. understandably. hence more dorky debates.