We mourn our craft

Re:We mourn our craft by yoyohello13 on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:27PM (#46936459)

> But AI has enabled them to put pages and pages of text out into the world each week: posts and articles where there were previously none.

Are you for real? Quantity is not equal to Quality.

I'll be sure to dump a pile of trash in your living room. There wasn't much there before, but now there is lots of stuff. Better right?

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Re:We mourn our craft by maplethorpe on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:30PM (#46940929)

I'm finding it hard to reconcile HN's love of AI generated code with HN's dislike of AI generated content. Why is the code good but the content bad?

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Re:We mourn our craft by yoyohello13 on Monday February 09, 2026 @12:06AM (#46941768)

I think both are bad when the focus is quantity over quality. The vast majority of AI generated content is lazy and of low quality. This is just a natural consequence of making things easy. Gate keeping is actually good sometimes. Doesn’t mean there isn’t good, well curated content out there that AI was used to help make, but I think the vast sea of crap that AI enables is not worth the few gems that come with it.

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