It’s both rage and hype bait, farming karma.

The optimists upvote and praise this type of content, then the pessimists come to comment why this field is going to the dogs. Rinse and repeat.

Vibe coders are the new eternal september

You can get to the front page easily with dozen upvotes, like from your colleagues and friends. Sadly, that's possibly the only way to get your post some attention here now.

I once read here on HN that a good metric for filtering controversial comment sections is number of upvotes/comments. If it's bellow one, the thread is probably controversial.

There’s barely any debate, people don’t answer each other; It’s rather about invoking the wonder and imagination of everyone’s brain. Like spatial conquest or an economic crisis: It will change everything but you can’t do anything immediately about it, and everyone tries to understand what it will change so they can adapt. It’s more akin to 24hrs junk news cycle, where everything is presented as an alert but your tempted to listen because it might affect you.

This comment has even lower nutritional value. It's just a "dislike" with more words. You could have offered your counterarguments or if you're too tired of it but still feel you need to be heard, you could have linked to a previous comment or post of yours.

I complained about the same thing, but apparently people take the bait.

Which is why I only quickly scan through the comments to see if there are new insights I haven't seen in the past few months. Surprise, almost never.

This one didn't contain a sepia tinted ai slop diagram so it beats the average

Maybe it still could be new to some.

> So I'm guessing they just rise because they spark a debate?

Precisely. Attention economy. It rules.

What I find interesting is that similar propositions made 2 years ago was ragebait to the same people but they ended up coming true.