"in the prevailing AI smog"

How do you know AI was not used in the making of this?

(personally I don't care, the result seems nice to me)

This I don't know, but at least the topic is not related!

only a small subset of the HN front page is AI related lol

What bizarro world HN are you reading? I'd like the link, please.

Looking at the front page right now, only about 8 out of 30 are about AI.

Only?