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Should /c/opensource allow AI / slop-coded project posts, or remove them? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 days ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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We've been getting a lot of AI coded submissions recently, as well as lots of reports asking to remove them.

Should we remove these posts, or not?

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[โ€“] ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We had Slop before AI. we just called "shit".

If a coder wants to shit out a project that never works and never patches it? I want them to notice the culture and know better.

If someone is learning, using the tools they have available, and shows a commitment to maintain their project? I want to see their work. I wanna see them get help from the community to be more literate in their own project, and in the full toolset they're using.

Most of these vibecoded submissions are the former. Thank you for removing the fecalware. If the community decides it needs to remove AI at all to keep this up? Eh, there's dbzer0.

[โ€“] zenforyen@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Wish I could give 100 upvotes.

Quality is quality, shit is shit. Between that there is a vast spectrum. Nothing on that spectrum is intrinsically linked to the apparently cursed property of being produced by or with help of an LLM.

One can be against LLM use for various reasons, and build communities around it, but equating AI = slop is an infantile reaction.

Sure, AI makes it easier to produce polished turds faster. But thats fault of the user, not the tool.

Otherwise we should equally ban VSCode, because everybody knows that good software is written in vim and most slop is done using VSCode. Ridiculous.