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.
What all these AI heavy devs don't understand (or care about?) is that I don't need you as a proxy for the AI. If it keeps improving in the way they hope and expect, you will eventually be able to type "build me an app" and it will just do it.
That sounds great on paper until you realize that you either need A: a subscription to a Big Tech company who is on record saying they want to put human knowledge on a meter, or B: Access to hardware that is priced out of reach for many people (due to the actions of big tech) if you want a useful, performant, local model.
LLM tech is neat if you look at it in a vacuum. But you CANNOT do that in the real world. Most of the force behind the AI push is from people who want to put skill behind a pay wall they control. I cannot advocate that, even if claude can rewrite Linux in Rust perfectly. And it greatly upsets me that there are pillars of the OSS community (looking at you, Linus) who refuse to consider that because it is personally useful to them.
Unfortunately, we've been put in a situation where you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. And the blame is solely on the devs and big tech personalities who move fast, break things, and do not think about the effects of what they put into this world
It may be anecdotal, but the push to use LLMs seems to come more aggressively from older folks. I always have to remind my older colleagues that, if we don't open new positions because "LLM can help us do more", we end up blocking newcomers from starting a new job in IT. It's as if, since they already have a secured position as seniors, they don't really bother thinking about the rest of us...