See payolla for the radio era equivalent.

When reading this I immediately thought of them. Anyone I know who plays an instrument said their socials are flooded with them.

Socials being flooded across the board feels weird, but it's also how network effects are _supposed_ to work.

I just hate the fact that I feel jaded and cynical about this as my default position.

Social media is not driven by network effects though. It’s driven by algorithmic engagement and its operation is opaque.

Are they admitting they may be enslaving conscious beings?

Yup, strange to see people still don’t understand LLMs massively speed up coding greenfield pet projects. Anytime you see a bee web app it’s better to assume AI use rather than not anymore.

It actually gives you warning in an overlay first that the favicon would change if you open a new tab. I did and I got "zuckerberg nudes"

The executives are, not the devs.

Yup, and we arr wasting our weekends worried about keeping pace in an imagined red queen's race. Another similar post today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388646

they fantasize about unpaid interns writing specs and nobody ever needed to look at the code in a few years

Don't worry, Seiko learned: https://www.grand-seiko.com/us-en/collections/sbgd223j

Grand Seiko makes some truly beautiful watches, and also some terribly gaudy horrors.