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weedfroglozenge · 2026-09-09T03:57:55.000000Z

Anyone fighting for the removal of CAPCHA's or complaining about picking motorcycles or bridges is a bot and should be removed from this website. As a human, I have no problem solving these. I don't think I'm particularly clever but I am human. Bot psyop?!

weedfroglozenge · 2026-09-08T23:05:51.000000Z

Are you really taking a holier than thou approach on a google article?

weedfroglozenge · 2026-09-06T23:15:11.000000Z

I don't understand - What are the OpenAI Agents doing on the message board? What are they posting / Why are they posting?

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-31T04:52:18.000000Z

I mean he is kind of speaking truth. Anything Simon posts seems to get upvoted and this article is nothing special or interesting. It's like a tutorial for a feature of a ChatGPT subscription.... Cool.

minimaxir · 2026-08-31T05:12:22.000000Z

Occam's Razor would suggest that's because Simon posts good content.

You can check his domain history to confirm that not everything Simon posts gets upvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=simonwillison.net

4747474747 · 2026-08-31T06:50:05.000000Z

occams razor says this parasite gets support from YC for these circucular promotion schemes with the companies he writes about

anthonyrstevens · 2026-08-31T16:46:50.000000Z

So instead of "informed and intelligent blogger posts about topics they are interested in and knowledgable about", you think a simpler explanation is "nefarious, undetectable astroturfing campaign that distorts reality"? Get a grip.

rvz · 2026-08-31T10:39:07.000000Z

Almost, but not quite. I would say "protected" accounts and domain names by well known YC folks are "allowed" to do this on this site.

If is anyone else, then they get themselves banned.

simonw · 2026-08-31T12:57:14.000000Z

Allowed to do what?

simonw · 2026-08-31T08:51:10.000000Z

Find me a clearer explanation of what ChatGPT Work actually is.

I wrote this because I got frustrated waiting for someone else to figure that out and write about it.

tomlockwood · 2026-08-31T08:59:42.000000Z

The post sounds like an advertisement.

simonw · 2026-08-31T09:05:42.000000Z

"It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product."

"I find [OpenAI's explanation] almost entirely useless"

"An open question for me right now is how safe all of this stuff is."

"Figuring this all out took way more work than it should have."

tomlockwood · 2026-08-31T09:18:42.000000Z

"It broke out of containment and hacked computers on its own!!!"

Marketing.

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-30T23:59:00.000000Z

If I'm swimming in Lake America, in America, greatest country in the world, I don't want to hear this "Je ne sais quoi" - Keep it in American, buddy.

johncearls · 2026-09-01T09:24:51.000000Z

I'm not your buddy, pal.

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-26T02:39:12.000000Z

This game got surprisingly big for what once was an LLM prompt "Create an opposite version of wordle and throw AdSense on it"

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-24T06:25:33.000000Z

Now let's see how the programmers of today function without someone holding their hand!!! xD

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-24T02:28:55.000000Z

What consumer or organic traffic do you imagine getting when the entire website is just a billboard?

alexcloudstar · 2026-08-24T06:15:30.000000Z

idk, we'll see!

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-10T05:58:22.000000Z

OP is posting to receive offers :(

zlatkov · 2026-08-10T06:56:19.000000Z

I actually don't think there could be meaningful offers for a blog of that scale.

weedfroglozenge · 2026-08-10T05:41:31.000000Z

I can tell you're not on a 4k monitor then.