Keep your Claude code/codex projects to yourself

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bileco101@reddit

I get the frustration with low-effort AI posts. But the spreadsheet comparison isn't quite right. People share templates constantly. The real issue is the lack of context, not the tool. Banning GitHub is overkill. Just require meaningful explanation with the code dump. That would filter out most of the noise. Let the community decide what's valuable through voting. No need for heavy-handed restrictions. Just better posting guidelines. That usually works.

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PENGUINSflyGOOD@reddit

I just hate when the post is 100% written by ai word for word. At least use your own words to describe what you're sharing.. show that some effort and thought went into it from a human.

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

And then the people in the comments going “you don’t know that they used AI, AI is just trained to sound like how people write, I’m sick of everyone accusing every post of being AI!” Like, no. It’s extremely fucking obvious.

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KingdomOfAngel@reddit

This

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ninjaluvr@reddit

Yeah, it's nice to speak with humans

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Unnamed-3891@reddit

You thought people aren’t sharing spreadsheets?

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Bazzatron@reddit

I've seen people still using them as a database, every read/write generating an exclusive lock with the perpetual race condition of "end users gonna end use".

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queBurro@reddit

We're decoupled from the db implementation behind a repository layer. As long as we're all happy with performance, security and D/R then why not? Apart from it being a rubbish idea.

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thatpaulbloke@reddit

I did that in VBA when it first came out in the early to mid nineties just to prove that it was possible, but I made sure that every single file and piece of code was destroyed afterwards. Can't risk that kind of infection getting out into the world.

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Bazzatron@reddit

I just had to do something in VBA, as a relative baby developer, I was absolutely flabbergasted going from things like Python, Java and C to VBA. Totally new way of working, what an experience 😅

Glad the whole thing never saw production!

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Mothringer@reddit

You can tell from that example this guy had never played an MMO in his life. Although in practice, those spreadsheets have more in common with xzip than they do with somebody’s vibe-coded app.

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

I.... Just forgot about the dozen of monster hunter calculators I have on my gdrive. I went looking for those tho...

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Mothringer@reddit

No hard feelings, but was one of the worst possible examples you could’ve used. I know in my pre-sysadmin days I have made spreadsheets that took thousands of hours to develop and are still in use at a fortune 5 company.

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mediocrobot@reddit

You brought up spreadsheets for RPGs in the first place, and OP reminisced about their experiences with that. Why the hell are you treating this as an ego measuring competition?

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dparks71@reddit

At least in my experience, it's more like one guy built a working version 15 years ago that's 98% big free and it hasn't been QC'd or changed since, so by the time it gets to you it's 3 standards revisions behind.

Trying to get structural engineers to move to git though? Yea, just accept the spreadsheet and pray it's still conservative.

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

But that's within your company. That one guy didn't make it public and started advertising it everywhere he could.

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rstr1212@reddit

You have zero clue what you are talking about

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dparks71@reddit

No they did, it was at a major consultant and they licensed them to major class 1 railroads. I'm sure they're still in production today and still not up to date with modern versions of AREMA haha.

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shimoheihei2@reddit

In the personal finance world, people not only share spreadsheets, they sell them as their "budget system". So I agree with your base premise but your example is flawed.

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Ssakaa@reddit

I've dealt with the worst middle ground... people selling shit kludged together in spreadsheets and a bit of vbs as "software" that they wanted thousands a seat in licensing for...

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MakeUrBed@reddit

We had a user submit a ticket yesterday for installing office so they could work on spread shits . Not familiar with this technology. I wonder if it's similar to a Cleveland Streamer.

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jinks@reddit

That was probably just a typo. Ask them if they were looking for Microslop Orifice to deal with their spread shits.

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agingnerds@reddit

Also a good spreadsheet with a cool formula doing cool stuff... I am interested in.

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Expensive_Finger_973@reddit

There are whole Excel competitions.

https://excel-esports.com/

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spittlbm@reddit

I'm going in early and sending my spreadsheet

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OregonTechHead@reddit

I'm torn. I don't want to see this sub being nothing but AI coded "I built this" posts.

But also, if you're blindly running something randomly posted on reddit, well....goodluck.

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spukhaftewirkungen@reddit

Maybe you could just try to ignore when the mean, horrible people who are inspired by the possibilities of new technology and offer you free software?

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Chill_Squirrel@reddit

Anything with the words "I built" just makes my eyes roll nowadays.

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FrivolousMe@reddit

They start with "I built" because it sounds humble. Then they go on linkedin and to VCs calling themselves a "Founder" lol.

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

They think they run a startup because they published an app and then spammed it on social media. I don’t know how these people take themselves seriously.

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FrivolousMe@reddit

They're all over twitter and linkedin with a professional headshot and a bio that has enough buzzwords to to cut a forest down

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

“I was sick of _, so I built _”

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PsychoGoatSlapper@reddit

Especially because 95% of the time ‘they’ didn’t make a damn thing.

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

And are going to put even less effort in maintaining it.

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int0h@reddit

Maintaining? Works on my computer...

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theEvilQuesadilla@reddit

Ai WrOte It, So ObViOuSlY iT cAn'T bE hAcKeD

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NotTodayGlowies@reddit

Honestly, it's pretty bad. What's fun is when it passes linting, SAST, and secret detection, then passes it's own unit test because it's always a good idea to have the LLM write it's own unit test, only to fail in production....

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iamwayycoolerthanyou@reddit

It's really too bad. I remember putting so much time into these scripts.

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rosseloh@reddit

I have so many other things to do that I'm really coming around to (during our testing period) letting the bot do the grunt work. Most of my time writing scripts in the past hasn't been actually writing or even debugging, it's finding what tools exist in powershell or whatever to let me do what I need to do in the first place. And that's where this excels - it parses search results much, much faster than I do.

I wrote two yesterday that, had I done them by hand, probably would have taken the bulk of my day. It ended up taking 30 minutes for both.

I'm still vetting the scripts line by line and make sure they're doing what I expected, and testing appropriately instead of just deploying blindly.

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Frothyleet@reddit

This is really weighing on me, I'm in a similar boat. It's hard to justify handwriting as much scripting when there's other things I could/should be working on. And while I can test and validate and review code that an AI tool is generating or helping generate, I absolutely feel like my coding and problem solving skills are atrophying a bit.

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rosseloh@reddit

So far the scripts I've had it assist with have been almost entirely for time saving, like the one I'm testing right now to iterate through switch stacks at one of my remote sites and save the LLDP neighbor info for all of them (which I will then feed back into it and ask it to build interconnect tables). There's not really any troubleshooting involved here, it's just "doing this manually would take hours".

I also had it do "script that kills the teams process and clear's the user's cache", which is one I have yet to fully vet but looks promising. That's an example of "I don't know what to leverage within powershell to do this, I could figure it out, but it would take hours, and the bot made the script in five minutes plus a couple of back and forth iterations for another few minutes".

So I definitely feel you. But overall, I'm the network admin on paper and have network admin work to do, it's just we're such a small team that we all do everything including ticket triage, so time management is important and a tool that can force-multiply me is invaluable. Just casually having to ditch my personal gripes and morals on the subject in order to do my job, lol.

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Mrhiddenlotus@reddit

Its too bad you dont have to anymore?

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Kyky_Geek@reddit

That’s kinda my thing too. I have old large scripts I spent ages on. I had one of those “book” things right next to me titled Powershell 3.0 lol.

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Adrenalinmike@reddit

Isn't it the choice of each member which link he wants to follow and where not ? Just thought so. I assume the majority is old enough without being guarded by mods or members.

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hkusp45css@reddit

I don't think you understand the "problem" you're trying to solve, which is why your solution sounds silly.

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FrivolousMe@reddit

Gatekeeping "I built this" posts behind a karma gate would eliminate a lot of the worst, most spammy ones to be fair. Brand new account -> AI written post advertising a vibe coded project is currently basis of the zombie bot army destroying subreddits that don't take action.

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OneSeaworthiness7768@reddit

It might stop a few of the most low effort ones but in my experience the ones who spam their tools most aggressively do it on accounts that they’ve purposely built up to avoid karma and account age requirements.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I’ve used AI coding tools for months and spent hundreds of hours creating the world’s largest open‑source database of EOL network devices. Is it wrong to share that information with people who might need it just because I used AI to build it?

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PigeonRipper@reddit

If it took months because it's hard and not because of a skill issue then I'd personally say it has value I.e not slop. I think we both know what OP is referring to though.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I tried posting about this database on r/homelab, but people called it AI slop just because they saw it was made with the help of AI, so I had to remove it. I spent months looking for the information I generated with AI and couldn’t find anything like it, which is why I created it. But all people see is that it was made by AI, and they downvote it. This backwards thinking is becoming a real problem. Most tech people used to be pro‑tech, not against it, but the atmosphere on Reddit is harsh and everyone acts like an anti‑AI sheep. It’s damaging real progress.

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PigeonRipper@reddit

I'll try to actually help you

I've seen plenty of AI assisted projects gain traction when the author writes the post by himself, and especially when the repo shows a long history of effort e.g. months of commits and so on.

In your case, your project jumped from v0.1-beta straight to v1.3.0 in one commit on the same day.

I would personally not trust it, and most other professionals will also see this as a red flag.

Also, apparently you insulted people giving feedback. I know this is an easy mistake because one gets attached to their work, but you need to detach and figure out how to turn the feedback into action.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tmfssx/eol_scanner_with_a_large_eol_network_hardware/

Lastly, recognise you're playing on hard mode. Your tool demands a higher standard than others as it is doing security work and users need to have a high level of trust in it.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I need a tool with a better database than mine please name one ?

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bfodder@reddit

Wow this person actually tried to help you and you're doing the very thing to them that the pointed out you should work on. They really nailed it.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I proved my point if you post anything about a Ai project it get hate no matter if the content is good or bad hate on Ai is what gives the most Karma this is the problem i talked about in the beggning

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bfodder@reddit

You need to stop crashing out at the slightest critique.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

Sorry where did he try and help? he talked about 18 mars before the database was made when it was stil a simple nmap warpper. What help did i gain?

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I have never insulted anyone giving feedback. I want feedback. I was criticizing people like you who judge a tool they never tried. You say you would never trust it, yet here I am running tests every day in my lab, improving it, comparing it to other tools, and it performs better than anything else I’ve tested.

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FrivolousMe@reddit

No they were offering genuine advice and because it wasn't what you wanted to hear you're now getting defensive.

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PigeonRipper@reddit

I regret trying to be helpful now. Good luck though

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

How was you helpful?

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retornam@reddit

A word to the wise is enough

Your responses show why people despise your posts and your AI generated slop project.

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

"You just repeat ‘AI slop’ without explaining what in the database is actually slop. What should be removed, added, or done differently to make it not slop? Which parts are bad, and which parts are supposedly the slop?

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CommanderKnull@reddit

I don't understand why you keep nagging about a DB? The guy simply gave feedback that your git history is sus and your response is to demand that he explain himself?

If you want to gain community support, YOU should clarify why it's not slop if people call it. It's your project and your issue, not everyone else's

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PigeonRipper@reddit

No no you don't understand, the burden of building trust is on us as the potential users, not the app-maker. We had it all backwards until galaxy brain here enlightened us xD

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ButterflyMundane7187@reddit

I'm not selling anything I'm just giving a hint that it exists so anyone who needs it can find it. If you don’t need it, just move on. But whenever something is made by AI, people always show up and pour out hate for no reason.

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bfodder@reddit

Take solace in the fact that they proved you were completely spot on in your analysis lol.

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Jmc_da_boss@reddit

Yes correct, it's fine to use it yourself but no one else wants to see it

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byronnnn@reddit

I 100% agree and have made similar comments on other post, but we can’t forget that many developers have been writing slop since the beginning. We have all dealt with applications that we yelled “who the hell wrote this shit?”.

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Jmc_da_boss@reddit

At least it was human slop in those cases, and required some semblance of knowledge to slop it out.

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FrivolousMe@reddit

And human slop is moderated by the time it takes. Now communities are being overrun because the slop can be generated ad infinitum with enough ai credits.

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bilange@reddit

~~I've~~ Codex made me 2 Pebble watch apps that suited my personal needs; I never thought of releasing them in the public because it's a niche need for a even more niche product line.

EVEN IF I did release them, it's far from polished. I'm probably still "old school" but I can't address every possible edge case other users could have in my apps, so I can't in good conscience release unfinished apps them in the wild. That's a bit in the same spirit as OP, I believe.

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Nate--IRL--@reddit

Same I, i mean AI, has built me loads of stuff Useful to me. Some stuff I've been adding to and tweaking for months. I'd never release it. It is good enough for me - I accept the quirks and work around them, if i can't be bothered to fix.

I have NO interest in supporting other users use of them.

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wrt-wtf-@reddit

You can achieve high quality outcomes relatively fast if you have the right structures setup to operate within. You also need to know how to program, manage a project team, and write appropriate requirements and set specifications if you want something of high quality.

Not all AI coded software is the same quality in the same way that not all human coded software is to the same quality. Spreadsheet or not.

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goingslowfast@reddit

If you’re trying to push your attempt to monetize your Claude project keep it off here.

If you’re sharing it freely and it solves a problem, I don’t see any issue with it. It’ll save people the time of prompting it themselves and most of these scripts are short enough to review pretty easily.

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LakeSuperiorIsMyPond@reddit

I use it to clean up my formatting. I've been horrible at writing scripts that just work but are hard to follow

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NotTodayGlowies@reddit

Many built-in linters do that for you know, liketerraform -fmt or go -fmt.

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

You can use the cli code and don't even read the script for all I care, but just don't upload it github and try sell it off as a real app that is going to get actual support. When we all know that is not going to be case and is going to be dropped as soon as: A: get bored, B: it works for you very specific user case, C: no longer has a need for it.

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donith913@reddit

I honestly don’t know how to tread the line and separate the cool stuff from just junk, and it feels like mostly junk.

I used to skim a lot of the stuff people would post on tech subreddits - helpful scripts, new tools, POC exploits… but it’s all just slop now. And everyone thinks “but MINE isn’t!”, and maybe it isn’t. But your AI generated post and AI generated code on a GitHub repository that has 4 days worth of commits doesn’t really interest me. I can prompt a model, too.

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DenverITGuy@reddit

In the same vein, I'm tired of bloggers and Microsoft MVP's sharing their new tool every other week. Except for a few actual developers that have maintained solid solutions for years, it's mostly AI slop.

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ExceptionEX@reddit

If you don't like it, don't use it, why not ban yourself, stop telling people what to do.

P.s. people do share spreadsheets everyday, there are literally thousands of template sites out there?

what an unhinged, and odd post.

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Jacmac_@reddit

The abject fear of AI is palpable, but reality is reality. No amount of wishing it away will save your career, get with the program, or you will find yourself being judged as not worth paying any longer...

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

I don't mean don't use AI. I mean I don't want YOUR AI projects because they must likely suck. And I'm capable of just making them myself as all of the other people in this sub are.

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hemps36@reddit

The excitement will wear off, most people including myself feel a sense of accomplishment and I know it's very small but having AI create something that wasn't feasible before or the github project wasnt mantained so you can just have AI build your own project.

There definitively should be a "place" for self built projects just not on here.

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lame_thriller@reddit

the spreadsheet comparison kinda falls apart though because yeah people do share excel templates and macros all the time, that's like half of what makes those tools useful. but i get the frustration with low effort posts that are just "i ran claude and here's the output" with zero context about what problem it actually solves. there's a difference between sharing something you refined and tested versus just dumping ai-generated code and calling it a day.

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Ssakaa@reddit

Sharing them and advertising them all over the place are two different things. If I said "hey, anyone have a good inventory template?" and someone tossed me an amazing spreadsheet, I'm happy. If I came around and am just browsing, I'm not finding 30 people a day saying "I built this really amazing spreadsheet! Totally open source except the license is "paid only for commercial use", but it's definitely not advertising, and I totally didn't vibe code it, but also if you don't vibe code you suck, bro"

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Lower_Fan@reddit (OP)

This is exactly what I'm trying to get at with my spreadsheet comparison. Despite the fact that companies processes and data lives on spreadsheet people are not in the internet advertising their unique ones they built for themselves

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PigeonRipper@reddit

Yeah it desperately needs to stop. There's no value in it anymore. It was only valuable before every knuckle dragger like myself could do it.

This is simple supply and demand.

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sk_sushellx@reddit

the spreadsheet analogy actually kind of slaps 💀 but the counterargument is open source tooling built on top of AI coding is genuinely different from sharing your personal excel budget tracker. libraries, frameworks, and tools that other devs can use as dependencies are worth sharing even if the demo app itself isn't. the karma gate for github links is a reasonable moderation take though, most low effort project drops are from new accounts lol

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Civil_Inspection579@reddit

I get the frustration tbh. A lot of communities go through this cycle where a genuinely interesting tool suddenly turns into endless “look what my AI generated” link drops with barely any discussion attached. After a while it starts feeling more like automated self-promotion than people actually sharing engineering insights.

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