Hacker News: overgard

New comment by overgard in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

overgard — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:05:36 +0000

"AI native". I don't know if you intend it but you sound like a linked in lunatic, nobody talks like that

New comment by overgard in "We’re saying goodbye to Sora"

overgard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:09:08 +0000

Amusingly, one of the ads on the page for me is a very obviously AI generated image of a man with sciatica. I say very obviously because his hands are on backwards..

New comment by overgard in "GitHub is once again down"

overgard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:09:52 +0000

I remember back in the early Windows XP era when things got so bad that Microsoft basically had to make a hard pivot towards security and reliability.

I think they may need to do that once again. Almost every product of theirs feels like a dumpster fire. GitHub is down constantly, Windows 11 is a nightmare and instead of patching things they're adding stupid features nobody asked for. I think they need to stop and really look closely at what they're prioritizing.

New comment by overgard in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

overgard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:04:03 +0000

I'm like 99% convinced that most of the AI conversation upvotes at this point is astroturfing. I just don't see the correlation with the sentiment I get from talking to people in the real world (mostly negative AI sentiment) vs what I see here

New comment by overgard in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

overgard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:00:39 +0000

Yes, the important thing is we automate away receptionists. Those rich fat cats.

New comment by overgard in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

overgard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:57:24 +0000

Is Anthropic raising funds again? I'm so sick of these thinly veiled advertisements.

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:28:06 +0000

Thanks! Link is much appreciated. I think the rare cases where things are reported should be recorded

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:26:20 +0000

Maybe we ask for drawings of pelicans riding bicycles. (Btw im still amazed how bad chatgpt is at making svgs)

New comment by overgard in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:25:32 +0000

I won’t take credit for this insight, but as someone else pointed out, everyone oversimplifies other people’s jobs. To PMs engineers are just code monkeys that they won’t need soon. To engineers, PMs are the guys that manage Jira. Designers are the fussy people that make things look pretty. The reality is all these jobs have intricacies AI absolutely sucks at but those intricacies are lost in the larger discussion.

As a coder though, I’ll point out this is why the “AI solved coding” shit drives me crazy. You only believe that if you don’t know how to code or you have an agenda.

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:13:01 +0000

Fair. I might be a grump, I think I only emotionally downvote things!

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:05:09 +0000

Honestly they might also just be super hackable. I don’t even know my password on this site but given I set it like 15 years ago it almost assuredly sucks (I will fix!)

I had no idea there was a black market for Reddit accounts. Count me naive!

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:01:59 +0000

Fair. I’m not trying to tell people they’re wrong to upvote it, I’m just feeling like I’m just reading ads for OpenAI and Anthropic at this point

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:59:42 +0000

I’m almost wondering if in a few years people are going to have to sign everything they write with a private key or something. I think anonymity is extremely important for society and the internet but bots are only going to get better

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:56:17 +0000

Yeah, the weirdly obvious nature of it gave me pause, but I think that might be a sign of a bot. Like “hey Claude come up with a username”.

To me, it would almost be shocking if these companies weren’t using bots or paid posters on HN. I mean, they show zero restraint around using the press to manipulate markets when they want to scrounge up investment dollars by either creating fear or ridiculous promises they have no way of keeping. I just want there to be a bit more awareness so people realize to be skeptical here. Like others, I’m almost feeling gaslit daily and it’s making me avoid this site a lot

New comment by overgard in "Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?"

overgard — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 02:46:28 +0000

I did flag it. But I feel like if we don’t speak out we’re just going to get more of this.

Ask HN: Can we talk about AI Astroturfing?

overgard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:17:53 +0000

Well first, I don't mean this as a shot at the mods that do a great job.

I'm noticing a lot of posts and comments around AI seem like industry plants. Look, I recognize that people are excited about AI and want to share their perspectives, and I'm not trying to accuse people that disagree with me of being industry plants, but the recent one about "I love coding at 60 now because of Claude Code!" by a new user with "cc" at the end of their name seems a LITTLE suspicious. As is the number of upvotes -- I can understand how a new model gets a lot of excitement, but a stranger on the internet enjoying the new model doesn't seem like 800 points worthy?

I'm not trying to spark a controversy here, but I'm wondering if others feel the same or if I'm just overreacting.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290057

Points: 49

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New comment by overgard in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

overgard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:05:48 +0000

What exactly would people retrain into? The future these companies explicitly want is AI taking ALL the jobs, It's not like PMs are going to be any safer, or any other knowledge work. I see little evidence that AI is going to create new jobs other than a breathless assurance that it "always happens"

New comment by overgard in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

overgard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:56:57 +0000

I'm mostly reading the comments section thinking "wow, anthropic is putting a lot of work into astroturfing Hacker News right now in reponse to the new ChatGPT release"

New comment by overgard in "We might all be AI engineers now"

overgard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:34:16 +0000

Fair question! I've wondered that myself, there is always the possibility that the productivity gain is in my head. I'm not AI pilled, if these things disappeared tommorow I would probably just shrug, I'm just trying to keep up to date.

Where I find it makes me faster is in dealing with writing low value code that's repetitive, which I might normally procrastinate. Like, the thing I'm working on is a data editor that generates a lot of fields, so having it churn out a lot of samey react code is useful to me in that context. There's already an obvious pattern for the tools to follow.

I also find it useful for "rubber ducking". Bouncing ideas I might previously have bugged a colleague about.

By faster I'm not suggesting a fanciful number for me. Maybe like 10 to 20 percent if I were to guess.

New comment by overgard in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

overgard — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:20:55 +0000

Green account ending in "cc". I didn't realize Hacker News was doing ads now.