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Comment by elzbardico | Hacker News Reader

I remember when the SEO nightmare started, it looked like an innocent intelectual investigation exercise like this.

We don't need to reproduce the same errors! Anyway I do think it is going to be different this time because generating content is becoming so easy today that the entire web would just become 99.99% slop very quickly if things don't change. That being said the solution isn't that trivial, curious if you have thoughts on it?

Youtube at least, is already 99% for new content, outside the channels you already subscribed. The amount of channels that are basically and AI animation with a voice-over of a curious wikipedia article is staggering, but those are the good ones.

The worse part is a deluge of stupid boomer fanfic (The ones about ungrateful kids, ungrateful employers that fired someone who secretly was a load-bearing (ha!) element for a contract, or HOA drama), self-help stuff, and red-pill incel fanfics.

You're talking to the CEO of the want-to-be-SEO company [1] that did that. It is very much content marketing for their services.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49557233

Indeed, we are helping growth teams get picked by coding agents, this is not a secret. But I do think this has the potential of getting 1000x worse than SEO so I don't imagine people letting that happen.

For example we just added code review here: https://armature.tech/leaderboards#app/code-review -> See my comment here about how much coding agents choose themselves. I don't expect people to let this last forever for instance, otherwise it's worrying for literally any software out there.

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