Anyone else feel like this post is AI generated? I've been seeing a lot of posts like this on reddit programming subs and now it's happening on HN too... The pattern is:

- some generic context, containing a bunch of em dashes of course, with a vague background that isn't tied to a specific incident

- a claim like "most ___ I've talked to about this" within the first few sentences.

- ends with a series of questions as though they're soliciting more input

I feel like these all must be coming from a single person who's trying to automate market research and sell the data or something

The discussion the post has created is still valuable even we don’t know the motivations behind the post. That was true before LLMs as well (people lie and exaggerate on the internet all the time).

Personally I give the benefit of the doubt to a post I suspect of being LLM if there isn’t an obvious harm (for example, the user shilling a product in the comments). There are still some benign reasons to use LLMs for posts like these.