I want a community where people can use AI to help build a tool and be able to post about it here. But unfortunately, I’m just not seeing that. The AI-generated apps seem to be coupled to a drive-by, AI generated post (and comment replies) all full of em dashes and the standard Claude slop language.
So, yes, mandate an AI tag. Hold posters to it and remove violators, because it seems to always be the same class of “contributors” that are cosplaying as software developers.
Not sure if your rule changes are touching this, but the worst offenders I don’t want to see here are:
posting and commenting text written entirely by AI
not open sourcing or giving any visibility into their code
adopting a paid model
The people doing that remind me of the people who would approach me 20 years ago saying “hey I have an idea for an app I want you to build and I’ll give you 5% of my company. It’s like Facebook for dogs, but I need you to sign an NDA before I say any more”.
I don’t care if an author is using AI in some capacity to write their app, but I draw a line when their posts on social media are also written by AI. There’s no human in it anymore.
The post was written by Claude. That’s its exact writing style I have to unpack every day during my day job.
It’s weird how many new apps show up in this community with long descriptions full of em dashes. Then the author starts replying using the same tone and word choices Claude uses.
I can’t tell if it’s just your standard phishing scam email or if it’s a “real” company that’s grifting stupid people.
The path of least resistance is always to delete and move on.
The only spam email I got today was from my usual guy who apparently hacked my computer and turned on my webcam and has videos of me masturbating. I better send him more bitcoin before he sends the videos to someone who cares!
The elective classes I chose played a huge part in who I became. More so than friendships or cringey moments or anything that happened in the mandatory classes.
I took home ec and made crappy fried rice and sewed an apron with the pattern upside down. I thought it was lame at the time. Today I cook every day and I can sew well enough to fix things. They are ridiculously valuable skills.
I took electronics and made a dumb little siren that pitched up and down when you held down a button. Once every couple of years, I need some simple bit of electronics and I design a circuit board, etch it onto copper, and solder on some components. If I hadn’t chosen that elective classes, I’d think that sort of thing was super advanced.
The hilariously basic “IT” class (I made a PowerPoint slideshow with animation and fart sound effects) is probably responsible for me having a career in software development.
If you’re ever asked to do a satisfaction survey, always do it. Give it the lowest score possible and write obscenities in the comments. Fuck them.
Source: I’m unhappily working on our customer satisfaction surveys at work right now and get to see the live data. Paying customers have no patience for this shit and love giving terrible ratings. Then the data people are sad and have to do extra work to scrub those responses from the data set before they can make their dumb little reports.
568C (the C is for chaos)
Wire in whatever way they fall in by themselves.
Then rewire the pins on the NICs so they can communicate.
It’s not so bad once you level up your soldering skills.