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Rick Manelius
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Rick Manelius's personal blog at rickmanelius.com covers career and writing. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rick Manelius's "AI;DR" post, a "Too AI; Didn't Read" piece about not pasting AI-generated text at people. It is cited alongside similar posts on the same topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Professional noticer. Self-experimenter. Compulsive sharer.
Most-linked posts?
- AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-08-17
- Assume positive intent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-08-17
- Forward Deployed Executives – The Next Billion-Dollar AI Unblock2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-08-03
What Hacker News says?
Send the coworker a few resources on this. https://dontpastetheai.com/ https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
Comment linking /p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
on “It's still ok to enjoy programming”Submitted Assume positive intent as a story · 237 points
HN discussionActually, reached out and he republished it: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impos...
Comment linking /p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impossible
on “Software engineering salaries come from one of three budgets”Submitted Assume Positive Intent (2017) as a story · 65 points
HN discussionYes, somebody else came up with that last month (AFAIK): https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
Comment linking /p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
on “Too AI; Didn't Read”Submitted AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRelated: Don't Be a Meat Proxy: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ No Meat Proxy: https://nomeatproxy.com/ How to Passive-Aggressively Shame People Who Use LLMs Selfishly: https://joshmoody.org/blog/selfish-ai/ AI;DR: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
Comment linking /p/aidr-ai-didnt-read
on “Don't Paste the AI, please”Submitted "But Everybody Knows This " as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> If the developer wants to move the project beyond that, it requires domain knowledge and a lot of hacking. Reminds me a bit of this blog post[0]. I remember doing a Drupal project around that time and being astonished at how powerful it was. I also remember feeling more like a technician connecting various components than like a software engineer, writing code. I totally saw the value for the client but I really d…
Comment linking /p/the-website-rfp-and-the-impossible
on “The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI”Submitted Are Chinese AI Models Risky? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The Hot Mess Express" vs. "In the Zone" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Helping Hurts as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forward Deployed Executives – The Next Billion-Dollar AI Unblock as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Know What to Do as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Permission to Purge as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted "The Hot Mess Express" vs. "In the Zone" as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coronavirus and the Coming Exodus from Cities as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Time Permitting versus Time Permission as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humanity's Destiny: A Technological Singularity or Spiritual Transcendence? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Digital Legacy: How Long Will It Last? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Employee 1 and Beyond: A System Set-Up Checklist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forward Deployed Executives: The Next Billion-Dollar AI Unblock as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Return to Analog as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why AI Children Can't Replace the Real Thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Watching People Experience Their AI Eureka Moment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted New Cognitive Bias Regarding AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Prompt Gap as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Website RFP and the Impossible-to-Estimate GI Joe Line Item (2018) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Employee 1 and Beyond: A System Set-up Checklist (2018) as a story · 1 points
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