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lionkortoday at 8:35 AM0 repliesview on HN

Actually, all of them are fallible, very incompetent machines that are good at writing text. They're not people, they don't have any qualities of people except the really bad ones, and they are absolutely miserable at reasoning.

The only people I know who use Gemini are unemployed.

The only people I know who use Claude vibe-code everything, often including their communication -- they probably let Claude kiss their kids goodnight.

Everyone else uses ChatGPT, and the world is worse off for it.

They are machines. "it" is the only acceptable pronoun, and personifying these machines adds emotion into the discussion and the use of the tool. They are not people. They do not behave like people. If you feel like they do, and you're e.g. autistic, that's entirely fair, so please take my word that they do not behave sufficiently like people in any way.

Nothing they do mirrors the behavior of engineers. They instead mimic the language of engineers. I understand that this is all it takes in a lot of circles to gain respect, which is quite a sad state for those circles, but that doesn't mean its a universal experience.