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dude250711today at 2:29 PM1 replyview on HN

Dark UI pattern: pretends that it is immediately usable only to redirect for sign-up.


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a24venkatoday at 2:35 PM

Fair point, we should be more upfront about the sign-up step. Given that tasks are long-running and token-intensive, we do need an auth barrier to protect against abuse, but we can definitely do a better job signaling that before you hit the canvas.

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