Please don't post snarky one-liners here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

My bad, I meant for this to come off more funny than snarky. Appreciate the check.

EDIT: Upon finishing reading the other comments on this article though...I feel a bit singled out. :)

Definitely not singling you out! probably the other comments were posted later, or I didn't see them for some other reason.

Didn’t seem snarky to me. Seemed pointed.

That was funny, and not at anyone else's expense so it doesn't qualify as snark.

That's a fine distinction about snark which I will have to think about.

The comment itself just joins two clichés. That is too obvious and shallow to be interesting, and you can't be funny without being interesting.

Joining two cliches: $1

Knowing which two cliches to join: $2.49M

Time for the regular posts on "how do I transition from senior software engineer to philosopher?"

Buy a lantern and start holding it up to your coworkers’ faces saying you’re looking for a good coder

It carries the danger of one of your coworkers responding "What makes a coder good?" and stealing the promotion, though.

If you have to ask, then you aren’t any longer.

Just look at their HN karma

I stopped thinking for myself, therefore I am not.

In a world where everyone is using LLMs, the only way to differentiate oneself is to actually think. I don’t know if this is part of the idea behind having some in-house philosophers but it would be interesting. If I was a big lab I’d definitely want some “clean room” humans providing input that’s not just what a model regurgitated.

It's mechanical turks all the way down?