Diversity of opinions is good, someone monopolizing the #1 comment of every AI thread is not healthy for the community.
To clarify, they are here to have fun, they liked the joke about cow-ork (which I did too, it was a good joke), and they had an idea on how to build up on that joke. But instead of putting in a minor effort (like 5 min in Inkscape) they write a one sentence prompt to nano-banana and think everybody will love it. Personally I don’t.
I'm all in on LLMs for code and data extraction.
I never use them to write text for my own comments on forums so social media or my various personal blogs - those represent my own opinions and need to be in my own words.
I've recently started using them for some pieces of code documentation where there is little value to having a perspective or point of view.
My use of image generation models is exclusively for jokes, and this was a really good joke.
"all sorts of assumptions about [someone's] character" based on one post might not be a smart strategy in life.
He is prolific, and being at the top of every HN thread is what makes him look like a reference but there are other 50+ people talking interesting things about AI that are not getting the deserved attention because every top AI thread we are discussing a pelican riding a bike.
