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coderanger@cloudisland.nz ("Noah K") wrote:
I really can't overstate just how much all the social hubs for software people (of all kinds) are dying due to bots and spam. Across the board, places to learn the craft of building good software are being locked down because the tide of capital-c Content™ is unceasing. I have been a community organizer for approaching 20 years now and I have no idea what to do anymore. Weather the storm and hope the price of LLM inference soon reflects its actual costs? Ban everyone that looks suspicious? I've ranted before that manual verification isn't a useful answer and I stand by that, but public spaces have an even harder problem than projects vetting contributions. We _can't_ vet everyone posting to r/python or the kubernetes slack, it's literally impossible. The next generation isn't just being handed The Robot as an easy way to "learn" (maybe? when it's not completely wrong?), for many it's the only way left. The last teacher left standing.