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dwroberts | on: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026
One thing that grates with that style of comment though is the implication (whether intended or not) that the link/post author wasted time and could have just had an LLM do it instead. And I think it’s important that we make clear that that style of comment is not welcome here.

If there’s elaboration on why an LLM is being used… do it in the original comment? Otherwise it’s just annoying and serves no purpose

AussieWog93 | parent | next
I don't think anyone's implying that people writing software by hand, especially as a hobby, are wasting their time. Like not even if you attribute unreasonably bad faith can you extract that out.

We're living in an amazing time where an algorithm running on a GPU can create novel things by itself and it's just exciting to share what it can do.

I love reading about what people have managed to get running with Claude, because honestly it's amazing that these models can do any of the things they're now doing.

I also enjoy seeing what crazy, cool creative things people are doing.

TaLiTr | parent
> that the link/post author wasted time and could have just had an LLM do it instead. And I think it’s important that we make clear that that style of comment is not welcome here.

So if someone talks about how "X" was hard and the first comment mentions there's a library to do "X", is that rude? Or is there a carve-out for the scary AI?

If someone came in with a story about how they were able to easily create an N64 game with No-code/AI/Libraries and the first comment was "ha! I did the same thing in a cave with a box of scraps" that would also be rude.

God forbid people share anecdotes about projects they were working on. On HN...