Like a young child coming home from kindergarten with their latest crayon scrawls, the internet is currently awash with people sharing their AI-generated work. And just like the young child’s drawings, much of that work should be proudly put up on the walls within the artist’s house—and no further.

Prologue: I ❤️ AI 🔗

It’s just that I know when to keep my crayon-drawings to myself ;) And I am getting increasingly sad and frustrated seeing communities that I value slowly wilting under the onslaught of shit. Often that shit is perhaps naïvely shared with no deleterious intent, but shit nonetheless it is.

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"I rewrote Kafka in COBOL"

Great, enter it at your next science fair. Meanwhile stop begging for stars on your brand new GitHub repo that no-one’s touching with a bargepole.

"I wrote a blog post about Kafka"

Did you though? We can tell that Claude wrote it, and it’s a piece of garbage.

"I made this video about Kafka"

Cool story bro.…