Re: I don't enjoy the Internet any more

I read a post from August on Bubbles titled "I don't enjoy the Internet any more" and while I mostly agree with him, I think the pale metaphor lets people off the hook. The pale just happens. This doesn’t. Every LLM-written Hacker News post and every coworker slinging outputs at him is someone deciding that’s good enough. He even says it should be considered rude, which is an argument about people, not the tool. He’s right that LLMs killed effort as a signal of quality, and that’s a real loss. But the tool isn’t the problem. The incentives are, and people are still the ones chasing them and fucking it all up. Sure, LLMs make the slop cheaper to produce. But someone still has to decide to flood the place with it.

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