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applfanboysbgontoday at 2:34 AM4 repliesview on HN

> The honest truth

> That loss is real and it's worth naming

I think I will not heed the first sentence and bear with this. What motivates people to do this? What do they get out of prompting Claude for some vapid "thought piece" and spamming it on the internet?


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greyface-today at 2:52 AM

Clicks, views, attention. This blog is part of Pydantic's sales funnel.

jongjongtoday at 2:54 AM

> That loss is real and it's worth naming

Yep classic Claude-ism.

The fact that this article was likely AI generated is the real load-bearing factor in this discussion. Or, as previous versions of Claude would say; it cuts through the heart of the issue.

singingtodaytoday at 3:16 AM

It got a lot of clicks here. Clicks equal money.

hyperhellotoday at 2:53 AM

It's just as easy to do the second one as the first one.