I don't disagree with what you are expressing but I think you are overgeneralising.

Sometimes the idea itself can be interesting. If AI is used to manifest the idea then so be it!

Secondly, I think it is almost unavoidable to use some ai generated content (code, design etc) when developing these days. Its just a tool and it can be used well or used poorly.

Lastly, I agree that there does exist a lot of what can truly be labelled "AI slop" where it is just lazy regurgitated content, and that is annoying.

I think there are a few people out there with great ideas, that might benefit from having access to tools to make these real. I'm all for those and would love to see them.

But i also think the majority of these cases will be bad ideas that don't need to be made at all. Or even ideas that are AI generated by asking a LLM for ideas. I don't care if they are made or not, but i would rather not have those on the internet and especially on 'show and tell' places like ShowHN etc.

I'm also not opposed to using AI as a tool in development or similar. But there are more and more examples of purely vibe-coded or generated things and those fall in a different category in my opinion.

I completely agree man, this is my sentiment too.

I am much more interested in infrastructure related things and price optimizing. I've spent hours and days looking at all the options compiling resources and building scrapers to scrape information of servers and having them be made via LLM :) just to get the idea of context.

I don't know but like what i possess isn't a deep knowledge within the domain itself (one of the reasons why I love golang is that all the tradeoffs of it are okay with me and it's complexity just feels linear to me and I would have this simplicity in code where if I ever wanted to, I just feel so much more confident about tweaking LLM generated golang code than say rust)

A lot of what I love is the hacking around the project. Ooh so you used golang to make it cross compatible easier? Are you using the modernc driver? What servers are you gonna use? (hetzner,ovh,netcup etc.) while the code being completely open source and I will be transparent about how much the servers cost and how much I make in the middle and just some sustainable ideals so that it can be day one profitable but without ripping anyone off.

Y'know mixing and matching different services. I think I am really frugal so like this is like the deepest intersection of like all of my hobbies combined.

I face any problem -> use free llm from web -> python/golang code -> deploy it on my web server -> use cloudflare tunnels and custom scripts + zed/others and micro to deploy servers great (I prefer using tmux as well with zed terminal)

But even with all of this, I wouldn't say that the code isn't slop but I do feel like its pretty much reasonable and I have been vocal about how if I ever create something and a community actually occurs out of it & they want me to recreate it from scratch without any LLM assistance, I actually would even if that means reading documentations of all the libraries used in such golang project etc.

But like the reason why I still do things is because I do it for myself and I am pretty impatient. I build things which trouble me first and foremost to fix issues I have & that's kind of source of joy I have.

I don't know man, like I hate AI for all the psychological issues its gonna cause but I still want to build things without having to spend say days in a project when I would be facing the problem right now.

I think I have always imagined myself as some consultant who wants to give the best option out there and have the code back and manage it or similar.

It's just that writing the code part myself isn't the most exciting part to me. seeing computers go work the way I want to in the decision choices that I make and can justify is the most exciting part to me.

Like does this make sense? I am not exactly pro AI either, I have written so extensively about it here on how AI is a bubble and the psychological and social impact it has.

In a way, I don't think I fit in the two boxes of pro AI or completely anti AI. I just am in the middle and I don't know if there's a term for it but like, I don't know if someone knows a term for what I feel about AI it will be brilliant but even if there isn't a mainstream word for it. I just don't really want to change myself to fit in any box. I have my nuanced opinion and I have thought about joining either of these boxes but being honest neither fits my worldview.

Does this make sense?