For context, lobste.rs has been struggling lately with a high uptick in posts on the front page that were either clearly vibecoded themselves or just about vibecoding something small, while the userbase is polarizing itself into two groups: one that dislikes ai for usually ethics-related reasons and makes anti-ai comments on every post that mentions it, and a smaller but still present pro-ai group that tries to discuss using coding models in good faith. Imo it's something of an identity crisis for lobste.rs.
I realize that this comment comes off as pro-ai, but I mostly agree with the first group that a lot of these posts are low effort and annoying. To me "This weekend I used Claude Code to poorly copy someone else's markdown editor here's Claude's story of how it did it" and similar is about as interesting as "I copied a bunch of code snippets I don't understand from stack overflow, here's all the links to them."
Somehow or another, HN has done a better job of keeping up a greater variety of content on the front page so it's not as much of an issue for me here, though it does still happen on e.g. days with big model releases.
For context, lobste.rs has been struggling lately with a high uptick in posts on the front page that were either clearly vibecoded themselves or just about vibecoding something small, while the userbase is polarizing itself into two groups: one that dislikes ai for usually ethics-related reasons and makes anti-ai comments on every post that mentions it, and a smaller but still present pro-ai group that tries to discuss using coding models in good faith. Imo it's something of an identity crisis for lobste.rs.
I realize that this comment comes off as pro-ai, but I mostly agree with the first group that a lot of these posts are low effort and annoying. To me "This weekend I used Claude Code to poorly copy someone else's markdown editor here's Claude's story of how it did it" and similar is about as interesting as "I copied a bunch of code snippets I don't understand from stack overflow, here's all the links to them."
Somehow or another, HN has done a better job of keeping up a greater variety of content on the front page so it's not as much of an issue for me here, though it does still happen on e.g. days with big model releases.
"AI-generated" with a dash or "GenAI."
AI—generated, with an emdash, would be poetic.
But it's a hyphen, not a dash.
(Ducks)