Your technical achievements will help make the web a better platform (here hoping that browsers in general adopt JPEG XL sooner rather than latter). I've not seen anyone in the thread asking for you to not be credited for your work, or that you should not be known in general. Also, attaching your picture and some biographical info in that article is cool and expected, no problem there.

But.. that image isn't your picture, is it? It's a gen AI simulacrum. It's 2026, the uncanny valley causes visceral, immediate rejection in some subset of people. People that recoil in disgust at the sight of that.. thing pretending to be real? Since 2022, it's like our world became an eternal black mirror episode

(a more serious problem would be the prose itself being AI generated, but honestly reading it I am not sure)

Gen AI (both images and text) does not help your technical writing stand out. It doesn't help to illustrate better the points made in the article. If anything it debases your work and your own image

> I should not be known and my picture should not be on the blog post

That is the opposite of what parent comment says. It took offence on a generated photo of you. It would have been better to not have anything than a generated image.

I think everyone on HN would easily agree with this. They take issue with the how i.e. AI-assisted images (and maybe text).

That is not what the parent comment says at all. The parent comment says that an actual photo of yourself doing literally anything at all would have been better and less insulting to your readers than AI slop.