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Re: Project Fucking Sucks

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Post by Otek »

I love those paragraph so much. Thank you.

“In this article, I’m going to be making an argument for gatekeeping. Not people, but culture, which is always worth defending. I’m not advocating for elitism, credentialism, or hostility towards beginners.

Instead, I say we should band together and defend the norms, values, quality standards, and our shared understanding of what open–source is for.”

I think this is very important distinction that should be understood broader.

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Post by crawshaw »

This long predates AI codegen and I believe discussing it here is a distraction. Projects written to grab mindshare rather than to be directly used by those building them have been around for years. These projects exist to get attention.

I would name some, but I notice the author has decided to stay vague rather than call out examples, so I will too. There is something real here but this site is not really helping get to it.

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Post by api »

It’s not really possible to gate keep. What are you going to do? Forbid people from publishing things you think are dumb?

What this author and anyone who agrees could do is create curated directories. There’s already some of these in the form of the “awesome ____” lists.

I’ve been thinking for years that the time might be right to resurrect a curated directory site modeled after the old school Yahoo. Back then the advent of good search quickly rendered that obsolete, but today we’ve come full circle and there’s a need for signal to be plucked out of the noise.

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Post by nrhrjrjrjtntbt »

I dont see many projects like this. Maybe because I often find out about projects through HN or naturally (e.g. someone gives a talk about it at local meetup) so I have curation bias.

What does tick me off is license changes and unclear commercial/free boundaries (and if they stay that way). I say this is worse as such companies obviously have $ to market these and so the impact is higher.

I would also add to his red flag list anything about gaming for Github stars.

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Post by gishh »

Otek wrote: post #2

I love those paragraph so much. Thank you. “In this article, I’m going to be making an argument for gatekeeping. Not people, but culture, which is always worth defending. I’m not advocating for elitism, credentialism, or hostility towards beginners. Instead, I say we should band together and defend the norms, values, quality standards, and our shared understanding of what open–source is for.” I think this is very imp…

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Post by totallymike »

alex1138 wrote: post #4

> You know exactly which one I’m talking about. No, I don't. Please elaborate (in great detail) :D

This is a subtweet in blog form. Without concrete examples or critiques it isn’t any more substantial than whining about “kids these days”

Edit: I admit there are plenty of concrete critiques in the article, but if we’re supposed to stand up against slop, isn’t naming names the first step?

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Post by tptacek »

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