I agree with that…but I wonder if we only ever hear from the so called parasitic ones?

Suppose a kid in Africa uses Claude to code an app that tracks the spread of a disease in their community and predict the next outbreak site based on x,y,z.

That’s technically slop code too. Do they get a pass because the cause is virtuous or not crowed about? By the letter of the law…no. But by the spirit of the law, probably yes.

I guess the difference is, how much leeway do we have for genuine enthusiasm vs parasitism. It’s hard to tell sometimes on social media where too many people are doing preening displays in public - and we’ve probably all been guilty of that.

As a rule, if a thing interests me, I’ll read the post, hit the repo, and dig around the files. If I see obvious use of llm in the code (like the stupidly verbose comments that LLMs like to pepper throughout), that usually means that the person either didn’t look, didn’t know to look or doesn’t care. That’s bad.

Bad intro post + bad readme.md + weird commit history + weird AI comments = I’m out.

Honestly, I’m usually out after the first one or two these days.