Let me turn it around. Imagine that you are a Google engineer who worked on Search, YouTube, or Nest. How would you feel reading your own post? You would probably vehemently disagree! I'm not sure your sentiment is relative in 2025. Everyone on HN knows that any "web scale" public product (with billions of users) 100s of engineers behind it. And, it takes very good ones to keep them running and continuously improve them.
Thus, in response to:
> It might be unfair
I say: Yes, it is unfair and unnecessary to post. It adds very little to the wider discussion.
Let me turn it around. Imagine that you are a Google engineer who worked on Search, YouTube, or Nest. How would you feel reading your own post? You would probably vehemently disagree! I'm not sure your sentiment is relative in 2025. Everyone on HN knows that any "web scale" public product (with billions of users) 100s of engineers behind it. And, it takes very good ones to keep them running and continuously improve them.
Thus, in response to:
I say: Yes, it is unfair and unnecessary to post. It adds very little to the wider discussion.