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vividfrier is a bot. You can see in many threads that if the general opinion does not go the way of AI companies, a completely outrageous pro-AI comment appears and is voted to the top, so that casual readers are tricked into thinking that the fake comment represents the general opinion.

Often such comments appear just before the submission is abandoned to wrap up the thing.



I like how they say they don't vibe in this comment, and then that they don't read the code anymore in just the previous comment in their comment history.


Where did they say they don’t read code?

> We still require a code review for any change and it's becoming a bottleneck - for sure


From their previous comment:

> I fought for years trying to convince my colleagues to write good commit messages. Now Claude is writing great commit messages but since *I'm no longer looking at code* - I never see them. I don't think Claude uses them either.

(emphasis added)


Ah that's fair critique then.


Gosh that is a dark pattern! Now we need to be aware of injected opinions to control the narrative.


Now? Intelligence agencies have been doing this for decades. There’s a reason social media and the web had some much money and support behind its adoption, and why the US in particular forces its view of free speech worldwide, it’s a way to weaponize opinion.

I have almost certainty by now that half of the web is just bots steering the narrative of humans, because I’ve never seen so much non sense being normalized in my life. Dish soap drinking level I mean.


Injected opinions have existed long before LLMs.

In a way, obvious injected opinions benefit culture, by making formerly-unaware readers skeptical.


You can also see a recent comment of theirs saying they "don't look at code any more" but in this comment they say they "still require a code review" for changes.

Pretty sus, bot or otherwise.


Or he's just giving a sane take, one that most people in the Bay Area have by now.

Lots of tech companies are doing just fine with purely AI written code at this point.

Saying that the quality is getting worse in some immeasurable way (while incidents remain the same) is literally unfalsifiable.


Actually it's fully measurable but no one who's making these claims ever seems to want to measure it, nor share data in a public way so that others could measure it.

What we do see publicly is OSS projects overrun with poor submissions, for example.


Comparing hobbyist vibe code that goes into OSS projects vs what large companies are doing with infinite token budgets is an apples to oranges comparison.

It is like saying "no one can produce a viable CPU because I can't tape one out in my garage."


> Lots of tech companies are doing just fine with purely AI written code at this point.

If there are so many, surely you or one of the other AI supporters have a public example?

I’m aware of two examples, although they’re (mostly routine) translation with existing test infrastructure, so easier for an LLM:

- Bun’s rewrite, although we haven’t seen the effects on further development

- Ladybird’s rewrite, which seems to be continuing fine


>Or he's just giving a sane take, one that most people in the Bay Area have by now.

I don't know what the Bay Area note is supposed to mean in the context of the whole post - unless you want to reinforce that it surely means that it's a sane take... In which case, I'm not certain the non-Bay readers would agree that it comes from an unbiased culture.


It is getting worse in a measurable way:

1) Since vibe coding GitHub has frequent outages and isn't able to load a large number of comments.

2) The slop translation of Bun resulted in immediate bugs (https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/30719) that the hyped Mythos apparently did not find.

3) AI features and (likely, though not proven) AI code resulted in a 0-day in Google code:

https://projectzero.google/2026/01/pixel-0-click-part-1.html

The house of cards is beginning to collapse.


Maybe this is confirmation bias but I feel like Github has had terrible uptime since before LLMs were a thing.


People started depending on GitHub more. Do people really think it was more reliable when it was a sprawling RoR app in 2010? (Not that there’s anything wrong with RoR; people just didn’t expect such high uptime back then.)


This account is another LLM-hype peddler, shilling specifically for Anthropic.


Actually I also shill for Gemini as well. Hassabis is a good guy.


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Help me understand how your above comment[0] squares with your previous one[1].

Above, you said:

> We still require a code review for any change

And:

> We don't really vibe though. At least I don't. I see it more as comment driven development. I need to understand the code and what I want to achieve where in the codebase

But in your previous comment, you said:

> since I'm no longer looking at code

And:

> Branches are now irrelevant

How can all of these things be true?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156996

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713557


Damn, fact checking a bot feels so distopic yet necessary.


gottem!!! Bad bot


Say potato


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Arguably, breaking out of comfy lurk just to pass a message can make the argument more compelling.

Focus on that message, not the messenger.


I've been here since 2008 and I'll say it. Vividfrier is a bot. The people behind the likes of vividfrier are vandals, shitting all over the commons just to get even more than the massive amount they have already been given.

HN was a tremendous resource built by its members and the moderators. In the last year or so a lot of that has been destroyed by people who have no sense of decency. They see deception as a virtue. They call it hustle or whatever. WTF?


What is even the point of botting HN? Besides trolling what is it that they’re getting even more of?


To direct a whole industry towards where you want to.


Do we really think HN is that influential?


The point of all of that is to become god, straight up unironically.


Damn.




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