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> There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not what I did.
As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism, especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material.
In your "opinion". So are you going to stop people from making "overdone" jokes on this site or others using variations of it from now on? Or is it only mine?
My link suggests that is it just a joke and it is fine if you do not get it.
Nobody is actually stopping you, It's okay to receive feedback it didn't go over well though. You're welcome to like that or not just as everyone else is welcome to see it as a well made joke or not.
Pulling off humor is possible on HN if you really want to, just not usually by making the same joke the article already chided or blaming others for not seeing it as a joke. Humor is also usually better received here if it leans towards the explicitly obvious side (e.g. quotes, a laugh expression, a /s, or the like) or ties into a following seriously stated point in a way that is still meaningful without the joke. These kinds of things don't always need to be done all of the time, but it helps greatly since the default assumption starts as a serious post.
All of that aside, sometimes you can very obviously crack a real roller and have it downvoted or the discussion steered back to a serious one about the post. That's okay too, it's intentional the site isn't humor first and it's not reasonable to blame a reader for seeing it as such.
> There are a lot of ways to do a terrible job of this. For example, prompting Claude "Rewrite Bun in Rust. Don't make any mistakes." and then praying it would work is not what I did.