Maybe this was a genius move made precisely to be ambiguous on whether it was April Fools or not... so that the author can later read the room and clarify whether it was or was not April Fools, without much repercussion either way.
r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming
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#13People still use Reddit?
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#15People still use Reddit?
Ignorance isn't bliss. They never had a downturn yoy in their userbase yet.
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#16There can't be any interesting discussion about AI programming. Every conversation boils down to what skill files you use, or how Opus 4.6 compares to Codex, or how well you can manage 16 parallel agents.
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#17Reddit is doomed anyway. People are using AI to start threads, and other people are using AI to comment on these threads. You can never know what you're interacting with.
If you email comment links to the mods that you believe are AI-assisted, they’ll review and act on that. Footer contact link. It’s not hopeless.
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#18> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
If only, just this once, it were true. Sigh.
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#19Reddit is doomed anyway. People are using AI to start threads, and other people are using AI to comment on these threads. You can never know what you're interacting with.
Do you think that this is not happening here?
Worse, I am repeatedly being accused nowadays of being an LLM. It probably doesn’t help that I riff-write with only a rough outline of what I want to say, not how to say it.
If the accusation is that I am an inference engine pumping out words based on a trailing context window then I am guilty as charged. It’s just that I run on Fe + C6H12O6 + O2 (a bloodstream charged with lunch and air) instead of y/C/N2 -> Si+e- (sunlight, coal, and wind turned into silicon electrons.)