A librarian's guide, a manifesto, and a mounting formatting backlash.

"Don't Paste the AI, Please" took the HN front page at 498 points and 247 comments, arguing that dropping raw model output into Slack and email "shifts the burden of comprehension and understanding to everyone else" while the sender skips comprehension entirely. (dontpastetheai.com) The thread's catchphrase became "don't be a meat proxy," and several readers noted the page itself reads as partly machine-written, which is either an own goal or the point. Separately, Syntax.fm's Scott Tolinski asked for "a good one liner to my agents from never doing this again" about GPT's mini-headings, pulling 67,288 views. (X) Formatting habits are now a model-selection criterion for working developers, and people are trying to fix it at the instruction layer rather than switching models.