Re:AI Police Reports: Year in Review
by closewith on Saturday December 27, 2025 @10:24AM
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The comment isn't infamous because it was petty or nitpicking. It's because the comment was so poorly communicated and because the author was so profoundly out-of-touch with the average person that they had lost all perspective.
It's why it caught the zeitgeist at the time and why it's still apropos in this conversation now.
> It's because the comment was so poorly communicated and because the author was so profoundly out-of-touch with the average person that they had lost all perspective.
None of those things are true. Which is the point I’m making. Go read the original conversation. All of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Don’t skip Brandon’s reply.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9479
It is patently absurd to claim that someone who quickly understood the explanation, learned from it, conceded where they were wrong, is somehow “profoundly out-of-touch” and “lost all perspective”. It’s the exact opposite.
I agree with Dan that we’d be lucky if all conversations were like that.
So yes, it is the opposite of why people link to it, which is to mock an attitude (which wasn’t there) of hubris and lack of understanding of what makes a good product.