Comment by pantelisk

Same thing happened with the release of a certain programming language release a few weeks ago (that seemed fully vibecoded, which is fine - but was making multiple grandiose claims which attracted pushback). Multiple sock puppet accounts defending the poster religiously with attitude that is more reserved for reddit than HN.

It happens more around things related to vibecoding, it seems that influencer culture, empowered by this new tooling is starting to distort tech communities.

More and more of this will be happening. Before AI coding - the fact that something like photopea or pixelr existed, meant that somebody had to commit years of focused work to even reach to the same level of quality before starting to provide value and attract users. That alone made copying a losing proposition, or at least it raised the bar as it meant one had to be a truly exceptional and dedicated builder.

Nowadays it can happen in an evening, so everything successful will get copied and attacked and attempted to be displaced by noise and hype on certain internet circles alone. Like the cheap ridiculous clones of popular ios games and apps of the past, except now on an industrial scale!

I guess this is the new world we are entering, but can we at least keep the astroturfing and bad faith behavior away damnit?