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> But I’m burying the lead.

It's "lede". There's a few other typos too.

I'm not sure I like the "This one trick they don't want you to know about!" writing style of these (e.g. the Cursor/malpractice hot take, that sort of thing).

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I like it! It's provocative and opinionated, just what I want out of a blog. Blogs are casual, personal, subjective. I read a lot of blogs like this and appreciate being able to take in many broad opinions, many of which yeah I think are dumb, but I like to have them all bounce around my head. Gives me a window into how people are thinking across the community

Oh yeah, the provocative opinion "If you're not using AI you're missing out. It is the future!"

Never heard that one before.

It's "lede" if you're showing off or writing for a publication, where they deliberately search for "lede" and "hed" and "tk", which exist specifically to stick out from ordinary text.

I love how fickle HN is. This is the etymological equivalent of saying "it's expresso, not espresso" (espresso -> expresso, lead -> lede both happened in the 50s) and yet claiming that would be highly controversial.

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