So many articles like this HN have a catchy title and then a short article that doesn't really conclude the title.
The experiment itself is so fundamentally flawed it's hard to begin criticizing it. HN comments as a predictor of good hiring material is just as valid as social media profile artifacts or sleep patterns.
Just because you produce something with statistics (with or without LLMs) and have nice visuals and narratives doesn't mean is valid or rigorous or "better than nothing" for decision making.
Articles like this keep making it to the top of HN because HN is behaving like reddit where the article is read by few and the gist of the title debated by many.
The experiment itself is so fundamentally flawed it's hard to begin criticizing it. HN comments as a predictor of good hiring material is just as valid as social media profile artifacts or sleep patterns.
Just because you produce something with statistics (with or without LLMs) and have nice visuals and narratives doesn't mean is valid or rigorous or "better than nothing" for decision making.
Articles like this keep making it to the top of HN because HN is behaving like reddit where the article is read by few and the gist of the title debated by many.