tl;dr a rant about new accounts advertising their vibe coded projects.
Since a couple of weeks I notice more and more brandnew accounts from various instances joining the threadiverse, just to post about their new service, software or game "they built".
No you didn't built this!
Every time I looked into the repo (if provided) there was a fucking AGENTS.md telling a clanker what to do.
And now you're coming in here. You don't care about the community you post in. You don't want to participate and contribute to this place. Your first post is a fucking ad for your new thing that "you've built".
But you didn't built it!
I'm not a full stack developer, but I've worked alongside developers who built amazing stuff for the free and open web. The lenghty discussions about wether a feature should be implemented this or that way, the long nights of trying to get a feature ready, only to throw it all away the next day because you realized it wasn't that good of an idea after all. It's hard work.
You just had a quick idea, told the billionaire bot what to do, and vomited out thousands of lines of code in a couple hours.
No, I won't check out your new thing that "you made".
And that's the sad part. Open source used to be fun. Discovering new stuff that others had built, giving it a try and maybe finding a small bug and opening a pull request. That feeling of working together on something that can be used by everyone, despite not knowing each other.
You don't have any of that. And you don't deserve my attention, because you didn't build anything.
This is the way.
llm stuff can be valuable, but not if the burden is just slopped onto the maintainer.
As a potential slopper, I just blew a few days budget on Argon to do a security review of an open source rust project that's important to me.
It came up with some findings, but nothing I found concerning.
Now that report might have some useful stuff with useful fixes. But I'm not just going to slop it over to the maintainers to deal with.
I'll either put in the work to understand the changes, consider if they're worth the overhead, and put together a human PR that I'm comfortable with, or I'll leave it alone.
Your work should be more complete with AI. It's mostly fine to slop up tests with minor review. It's fine to use as a tool. It doesn't replace the human, and if you think it does it's probably because you're trying to shift that burden to someone else.