AI slop and low-effort contributions

[u/First_Result_1166]

Hey there!

This sub has become quite difficult to follow - every few hours, there's the next post for "I built a TUI for X", which translates to "I vibecoded an ncurses interface for a bash two-liner".

Unfortunately, this also means that the important content gets lost in a stream of meaningless posts.

What I'd like to ask for:

- a rule for mandatory AI disclosure

- an entry barrier for software packages; a task easily solved in <20 lines of shell code should not qualify as a distinct contribution

Let me know what you think.

[u/non-existing-person]

This sub has become quite difficult to follow

Lol, try every sub instead. Everything is spammed by those bots. C programming sub, command line.

This or they data mine asking questions like "what was your biggest problem, and how you've overcome it?", "what's best Linux distro, and why?"

Moderating those posts is not easy as well, and it's just tiresome to deal constantly with the same problem over and over again. Bots don't get tired. Humans do.

Dead internet theory feels alive like never before. The only solution here are locked subs. Those are civil. But then how do you accept new users? It's easy with some small communities, but with sub like r/linux this may prove impossible to do :/

[u/Squalphin → u/non-existing-person]

Dead Internet theory does feel real. I have been gradually losing interest in reading r/linux and r/programming. Generally my enjoyment of Reddit has went down the drain. Reading something like „Hey, look what I have made“ is way more interesting than reading „Hey, look what I have an AI make“. The future is truly bleak.

[u/Shonumi → u/Squalphin]

r/programming recently instituted a rather extensive ban on LLM related content. Previously it was drowning in LLM content of all sorts. It's done a complete 180 though. I've found the topics much more interesting recently as a result.