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Re:Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your start... by kyleclouthier on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:38PM (#49544088)
Some numbers, 40 minutes in, since people usually want these and nobody posts them.257 obituaries written by 118 people. Zero generation failures. Total model spend: one dollar. One person has bought the $3.99 autopsy, which is a 0.4% conversion and roughly what I expected, though I'd have taken more.

The thing I did not expect: people write several. The average visitor buries two or three things, which was not the behavior I designed for.

One bug worth mentioning because it is the kind AI products ship silently. If it couldn't actually fetch a page it used to roast the URL string instead, and fluently invent an entire website that didn't exist. I found it this morning on a domain that doesn't resolve at all and it produced a confident obituary for it. It now refuses and says it couldn't read the page. You can see it decline in my logs today on a site that blocks cloud IPs.

Re:Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your start... by dang on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:42PM (#49544120)
Can you please not post AI-generated or AI-edited comments to HN? It's not allowed here - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.

Of course, it's impossible to know for sure what was LLM processed or not, but some of your posts (like this one) have been getting classified that way.

Re:Show HN: Every AI agrees with you. This writes your start... by kyleclouthier on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @07:49PM (#49544179)
Of course not I wrote that to update the thread about what I am seeing now as it happens. This will always be respected. Thank you for checking this out!