Yes, it is. Sort of.

I’m running an experiment.

A few days ago I flagged a piece someone else had written with ai. It has a specific cadence and some typical patterns. But many people seemed to buy it before I commented. I was surprised.

Today I pushed the boundary further and it clearly was that boundary.

Check my comment history.

I started out just saying “rephrase this so it sounds tighter” and moved recently towards just jotting rough notes and saying “make an HN comment out of this” and then editing.

I’ve been using gpt-5. I was going to see how Claude sonnet 4 performs at coming across as human-written / flagging some spidey senses.

(This was all by hand.)

I personally find this to be completely unacceptable. No one comes here to discuss with AI. Please don’t do this.