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If anything, it made it more clickbait-y due to being an unusual title.

Yes, it's imperfect that way.

How does removing the word "how" make a title less of a clickbait?

"I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick" is exactly as bad as "How I made 40,000 dollars in a week with one simple trick"

It removes repetition and imitation. To avoid a frontpage list full of "why I rewrote ___ in rust" , ,"how I use rust for filing my taxes", "how I switched from braille to rust"

I sort of get it, but overall I still get the impression this particular filter is hurting more than it helps.

Samba was written …instead of vibe-coded. ;)

There should be luminaries to whom this does not apply, and tridge is certainly among that small pantheon.

I would say in this case it makes it enigmatic.