Simon Willison quotes Paul Graham criticizing the growing number of founder emails that appear to be written by AI in a hard-hitting journalistic style. Graham says that once he recognizes an email as AI-written, it becomes difficult not to ignore it. His objection centers on authenticity: a human-signed message written by AI feels deceptive and lowers his opinion of the sender.
This Show HN post introduces Agent.email, apparently a tool for programmatic email or account signup. Based on the title, its main idea is signing up through curl, then letting a human claim the resource via OTP. No article body is available, so product details, security model, pricing, and actual use cases cannot be verified.