I think !programming is not the place for ai-programming related content. Most people in this community will just downvote or ignore anything concerning ai-programming, so that the topic will never have a chance to be discussed in this community.

So if you want to make it possible for interested people to talk about the subject, a dedicated community is a must.

I think posts about LLM technology itself can be interesting, but random self promoting blogspam from founder types and tech bros about how they've found the secret to using "agentic programming" responsibly is the most boring thing imaginable. So yes, if it has to exist please put it somewhere else.

I've been tempted to make my own thread on this. There's too many AI related posts and I, personally, really don't want to see them. So for me it's really a question of whether to introduce a rule to disallow AI related posts (and move them to a dedicated community), or me having to stop participating in this community altogether.

Thank you everyone for your input. I have created a separate community, !aicoding@programming.dev, for AI coding related discussions.

I am all for "Vibe coders" having their own community and not associating with this one. I recommend the name "codemonkeys@aislop.dev".

I say yes. I'm wholly uninterested in the topic and do not consider vibe coding to be programming. It's just the speculative art of prompting.

Although I am very, very sceptical about the value of LLMs in the programming context this is now a reality that we have to face. Looking the other way won't solve the issues surrounding the topic. I don't think a separate community is necessary or helpful.

As much as I dislike AI, programming is a field where there's always something for someone to hate. E.g., should we ban C++ articles because there's a lot of Rust fans that hate them?

Your two options are not exclusive. Just create a community to discuss AI programming, cross post to the generic programming community if you think it's relevant, and let people upvote/downvote as they see fit.

Did people at !Aii@programming.dev express that they aren't interested in reading these articles, too? Because an AI-related community on a programming-related instance semantically conveys the same environment as a community dedicated to AI coding specifically in my opinion.