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varjagyesterday at 11:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Lobsters is in general very anti grift and marketing. A huge portion of daily hype submissions are low signal fluff.

As it happens AI the the hype of the day. Yes it is useful but also it attracts the same insufferable people who were pushing NFTs 4 years ago. So Lobsters have separate AI tag for technical pieces to do with actual development of AI systems and "vibecoding" for softcore user experience entries. Lots of people mute the latter. This, and the fact that the site refers to their blog posts as lowly vibecoding irks some of submitters.


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wahnfriedenyesterday at 11:54 PM

Their disdain goes far beyond routing out grift and hype. That is simply pretext