Is it just me, or is it actually a new trend that the first thing on the README page is an advertisement? Could this perhaps even be related to the AI glut?

In any case, aberrations such as the excessive use of emojis and exaggeration are becoming increasingly common, which is yet another reason for me to distance myself from GitHub. For me, a README that more closely follows the conventions and minimalism of a classic man page is a sign of quality, and it could perhaps even be rendered in plain text to achieve a high signal-to-noise ratio.

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benrutter 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Warp seems to have sponsored more or less every CLI tool these days- I don't think I've ever seen other companies advertised though somehow?

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whirlwin 3 days ago | parent [-]

Do you have any real experience with Warp? Just curious to learn

	▲	benrutter 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I've always stayed clear of it because I don't like the idea of merging shell langauges with terminal interfaces, and also I'm not really a big fan of tools that inject AI into my workflow when I don't want them too. So I don't really have a take on it at all. My whole experience of it is just seeing it's advertisements on every CLI tool page. Someone else here probably has something more meaningful to say about it though.

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hannesfur 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It definitely got more widespread, but I am not sure that it's related to AI. If it's a way for open source maintainers of awesome tools I use to fund their development, I am totally fine with that.

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OJFord 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's older than AI, I think people do it because it seems to work - where 'work' means builds hype and 'community' and GitHub stars fast.