For the most part I don’t think a community as slow as this should have much in the way of moderation. The fewer restrictions, the better. We are all adults here (well, probably).
Content-free clutter like OS playground fight memes and “Look! I, too, have answered the Steam survey!” posts is an exception.
And if somebody’s talking to us via an LLM, that’s (in my own dramatising-prone opinion) disavowing what makes us special among animals (apart from our infinite capacity for conscious cruelty): Language, reasoning, imagination, creativity, self-expression, personal flair and style.
AI-generated code is unknown territory for me. The people using it sometimes seem to know pretty damn well what they’re doing, in principle, even if they’re not quite doing it themselves. So I’m not in favour of banning it outright. But, as with the parent reddit community, I have set a “two months of verifiable development time” barrier.
What do you think? Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Too lenient? Too strict? Just vote or make alternative suggestions. (I haven’t got the energy to discuss this again…)
PS: I do miss the old banner but it was AI-generated back when that was still fresh & weird & interesting to play with… now it’s more like a plague
I’m guessing over time it will lead to people becoming more dependent paying for tokens among those who can’t afford to own the hardware needed to run AI locally. And those who don’t review what is being generated could accidentally publish something that is malicious as the manual review process becomes less common. Could be a good attack vector among those who are vibe coding everything, and not be diligent double checking things. Especially with how people will run random LLMs to use.