Ask HN: I just talked to an AI-obsessed client, and I need a shower afterwards
A freelance developer expresses frustration after a client demonstrated a restaurant management app built with AI tools like Lovable. The developer is particularly disturbed by the client's plan to use AI agents for automated marketing and fake review generation. This interaction highlights the developer's fear that AI is devaluing creative hobbies and contributing to the degradation of internet content quality.
- ▪The client used the Lovable platform to develop a restaurant management application that impressed the developer with its capabilities.
- ▪The client intends to implement features for automated marketing and posting fake reviews using AI agents.
- ▪The developer feels that AI tools are lowering the barrier to entry for creative work, which threatens the value of their lifelong skills.
- ▪The post describes a broader concern about the 'dead internet' phenomenon, where AI-generated content is flooding social media and music charts.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49826029 |
| Publication time | Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:48:41 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-24T03:55:13.935Z |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Just to preface, this isn't the typical "Am I being replaced by vibe coding" post.I just had a talk with one of my first ongoing clients, who sort of helped me kickstart my freelancing "career". He is one of those people who has a broad understanding of the tech out there, and what its capabilities are, but is not a programmer. He wanted to show me, and get my opinion on a restaurant management app that he's been using Lovable to develop. Admittedly, a lot of it is very impressive, and he has obviously become very good at using these tools. Part of that scares me, but I've largely accepted the reality that my skillset has to expand beyond being a React code monkey (wish is not what I am, but you get the point).
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.