There's little space for stewardship when LLMs induce psychosis and learned-carelessness in peers, so even though I'm here, I'm still motivated, and I'm still trying to stop crappy software (usually in code review), it feels like it is going to be a losing battle in the long run. The point being that "so little stability" with respect to financial stability may not necessarily factor- stability is threatened from all angles (code, motivation, fatigue, identity, etc).

Maybe a corollary to the growth of programmers is that pride/artisanship in the work decreases. Bugs happen more when the engineers dgaf, or aren't as dedicated to the craft. Software was pretty solid when I was a teenager (I'm thinking Windows, MSN Messenger, Flash, CDs, general web usage), complaints about tech/bugs weren't as common (or when they did happen, they were major, like BSOD). But I could just be romanticizing the past... idk.

In any case, say we were master woodworkers and we took pride in handcrafting great beds, but now the machines can make beds 150% faster at a 70% defect rate. There's 3 new problems: 1 is obviously that 30% of beds are shit, 2 is that woodworking as an industry is on the decline (expertise vacuum), and 3 is that the master woodworkers are disillusioned, their motivation and utility is decreased.

I believe that in time, the beds will get better, sure (the machines will improve). But in the meantime, huge numbers of people get shit sleep.

Either way I had a good laugh when I realized it wasn't going to end and getting the coins/tokens was pointless.

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https://r5d.me/vibeschism/

The mania and lament continues at full speed, I suppose. And related to the brazen contempt for consent:

https://r5d.me/robots.txt

I like the article's sentiment, but a do-over sounds... unrealistic. Sadly, this is very common with the lamentation links, where the article accurately describes the problems at hand, but is alack of actionable advice.

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Google and Reddit have contracts: Google has official scraping access to Reddit (probably more than that at this point since the contracts were signed 1-2 years ago). But the fact that Reddit does a good job at moderating human content makes it a boon for plausibly "up-to-date" info (which a model doesn't have). Google's LLM summaries even include Reddit as its foremost "citations".

Anyway, Google does a RAG or something similar for its LLM responses, and takes Reddit info at face value. I'm very interested to see what the "thresholds" are, like how much context poisoning do you need to be effective. If the above link is reliable then the answer is "mere sentences".

Certainly bad-actor merchants would try this sort of thing on merchandise subreddits; welcome to the new AIO/GEO everyone.

"Information wants to be free" is a small part of the hacker ethos venn diagram. There are many hacker ethos traits that aren't about cracking, specifically.

Also, the server "information" isn't free (as in beer) to begin with, it costs server availability. Coming up ways to penalize greedy actors is not only well within the server operator's perogative, it's an interesting tit-for-tat problem that could pique any hacker's interests.

A bonus hacker trait is that these poisoning responses are individualistic, i.e. the government doesn't get involved, where certainly more aggressive anti-AI sentiments could (wrongly) call for that.

So I'd say this type of LLM-resistance falls squarely in the original hacker ethos, even though it incidentally counteracts one minor aspect of "information availability". Though I'd certainly agree that the picture today is a lot different than it was. Ironic even.

Moreover, the submitter of this article (probably not the author) spams ~4 submissions per day.

(Thanks for visidata btw, awesome tool that helped me with a side project not long ago.)

It's decaying for a lot of the reasons displayed in the post, like you described, but the post also:

  - is overlong (probably LLM assisted)
  - is self-congratulatory
  - boosts AI
  - rewrites an existing project (vs contributing to the original)
  - conjures long-term maintenance doubt/suspicions
  - is functionally an advertisement (for CloudFlare)

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-...

> The scale of this threat is significant: our recent analysis found over 50 times more malware from internet-sideloaded sources than on apps available through Google Play

Bald face lies are getting baldier.