commentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
I tried using AI. It scared me.
Tom Scott · 4 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2023–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 8 other commentary videos tagged LLMs & generative AI, the mean is 1.3 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 3.2× that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 1.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2023–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 15 minutes 49 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2023-02-13.
- Channel / speaker
- Tom Scott
- Verified runtime
- 15m 49s
- YouTube upload date
- 2023-02-13
- Hacker News mention years
- 2023–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other commentary videos in LLMs & generative AI. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I tried using AI. It scared me.Current video | 4 | 3 | 67% | — | 15m 49s | 2023-02-13 |
| GPT-4chan: This is the worst AI evercommentary · Yannic Kilcher | 3 | 3 | 17% | No recorded overlap | 19m 20s | 2022-06-03 |
| $30,000,000 AI Is Hiding a Scamcommentary · Coffeezilla | 3 | 2 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 17m 11s | 2024-05-21 |
| Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancercommentary · Freya Holmér | 2 | 2 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 79m 55s | 2025-01-02 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Human coders are still better than LLMs”. Its short rationale: Tom Scott's 'where are we on the AI curve' video.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Headstart accelerates software development by up to 100x with Claude”. Its short rationale: Argues we don't know where we are on the technology curve.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Sora: Creating video from text”. Its short rationale: Tom Scott on his experience with AI.