Acknowledging the sibling post that this seems to have preceded the article from yesterday, but,

Your conclusion actually seems like a perfectly efficient end state of new product generation: Novel ideas land on HN > Built and validated immediately.

Haven’t HN posts always just been on some spectrum between, “New and interesting problem identified” and “New and interesting problem solved for, please critique”.

I.e., HN is simply a RFP+PR (pull request) marketplace.