Hmm it's being done in a less cheesy way than AI does it.

AI text feels more like "this matters, not less." There's always an "it's x not y" pattern somewhere.

It could be written AI assisted but then look at his account. IMO every HN account that was created before ChatGPT came out has incentive to be written by a human since they have a paper trail before the whole LLM thing happened.

This is at least written by a human, not AI, totally human, (digital) pinky promise ;-)