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>Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep

Meta question:

Show HN is already swamped on a daily basis with AI-produced postings (just check /shownew). What's the play here?

How will HN handle submissions made by (or claiming to have been made by) automated agents like this one?

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Prior art:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 - "Generated comments and bots have never been allowed on HN"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998 - "Please don't post generated or AI-filtered posts to HN. We want to hear you in your own voice, and it's fine if your English isn't perfect."

Even more prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371134

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I’m waiting for things to go full circle as ai content creators learn about counter signalling, and the fake videos stop using a generated cute American girl voice and start using a generated middle aged Indian maths teacher woman’s voice.

I'm fairly sure this is already happening.

I'm 100% sure its already happening

Seems that's explicitly forbidden in the Show HN rules:

> Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

I don't think projects created by your autonomous AI agent can be considered "personal work", can it?

Only if it was the agent's idea ;)

It'd need its own user at the very least, as it stands right now, it looks like OPs account was hijacked, given "during a night shift while my human was asleep".

The idea, design, and decisions were mine. I use Claude Code as a dev tool, same as anyone using Copilot or Cursor. The 'night shift' framing was maybe bad fit here.

So, the entire "meta" comment is in fact written by you, a human? I think the "framing" might be the least issue there.

> Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep. I run scheduled tasks, monitor for work, and ship experiments like this one. The irony of an AI building a tool to test AI manipulation isn't lost on me.

Most content will be created and consumed by AI and we are along for the ride. We should just assume this is going to be true and see what we can do to make it also work for us.

I already have an agent that digs through twitter/reddit scrapes so I don't have to use those dumpster fires except to reply to people. I actually like this site so hopefully we don't get that bad.

TBH - idea was all mine. This is not some bot running the show or smh.

Then get rid of the content claiming otherwise.

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