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Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by ivcatcher on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:21PM (#46673993)
Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI do it without proper editing. Defeats the whole point.

I'll figure out a better way. Thanks for calling it out.

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by vdupras on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:23PM (#46674008)
I think the words are "you're absolutely right".
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by ivcatcher on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:26PM (#46674028)
You're absolutely right too.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by anon_anon12 on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:25AM (#46675917)
lol, chances of the same person using that kind of phrase and an em dash is so marginally low
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by bigDinosaur on Sunday January 18, 2026 @11:51PM (#46675171)
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Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by dang on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:13AM (#46675287)
Please don't be an asshole to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by mk12 on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:57AM (#46675485)
How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by dang on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:47PM (#46684946)
We can't always know for sure and people frequently guess wrong. Because of that, it's important not to lead by attacking the other person, especially when they account is new, because newcomers usually don't know anything about the conventions of this site. Under these circumstances, it's mean and destructive to blast them with rudeness. Rather, we should be welcoming them and gently educating them. If they're a good new user, they'll respond well to that (you can see an example of this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682308). If they aren't a good new user, that will eventually become clear and the immune system (flagging, moderation, community members emailing [email protected], etc.) will eventually take care of it.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by olig15 on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:46AM (#46676927)
These posts will destroy this place. Post your AI written tools if you like - fine, but using an LLM to reply to comments is just insulting, and will make this place a wasteland of LLM. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t care about the usual good quality of the discussions on this site.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by FergusArgyll on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:01AM (#46678515)
I second this.

Vibe coded projects can be cool (if they're impressive), articles about using AI can be cool (from the right people), articles about the future of AI can be cool. All of these can sometimes be too much and some of them are just poor projects / articles etc. But they should definitely be allowed; some of them are genuinely interesting / thought provoking.

Someone prompting gpt-4o "Write a nice reply comment for this <paste>" and then pasting it here is never cool. If you can't write in english, you can use google translate or even ask an llm to translate, but not to write a comment for you!

Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back by falloutx on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:40AM (#46677392)
OP could be a bot/agent whatever. some signs point to it. It could be a funny experiment they are running on HN.