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.
Where to begin… I think numerous sources already discuss what is bad about Amazon, the shopping website, and its CEO. One among many other issues, which I think shows best what Amazon’s values are: for all the resources they have, the Amazon website is terrible to use, and it’s done on purpose. Search filters are useless, promoted products show up everywhere… The website isn’t designed for you to find the things you want, it’s designed for you to buy what somebody else wants to sell. This isn’t a business model I care for, and if that’s what the company is about, I don’t want anything to do with them or any of their products, no matter how good or popular.
Can’t speak for everybody else, but I personally don’t approve of Amazon or any of their services, so I will downvote any content that promotes them, directly or not.
Why would their experience be relevant? They’re asking a question, so obviously they have things to learn. You could be nicer about it.
Then it’s a problem of the platform, if there’s no way to either tag content on a particular topic, which people can filter if they wish, or a place for meta discussions, which people can choose not to visit. I still agree with the OP that simply deleting/forbidding this content isn’t a good option.
That’s a bit like saying “I’m not interested in compiler warnings, my program works for me.” The issues this article discusses are like compiler warnings, but for the community. You should be free to ignore them, just by scrolling past. But forbidding compiler warnings would not fly in any respectable project.
I hadn’t bought a bundle in a long time, maybe I just don’t remember it being that bad, but really? Even with the “extra to charity” preset, the charity gets less than Humble themselves? That’s kind of gross.
GitHub Desktop works well for me and my workflow; even though the Linux version is only supported by the community (possible thanks to it being open source). The UI is very neat and simple. Yet you can do squash, reorder commits, ammend, commit hunks etc. Dark theme available of course! It integrates with GitHub (for PRs mostly) but afaik isn’t tied to GitHub repos.
Very relevant read: https://staffeng.com/
There’s no specific AI detection at the moment, as far as I can tell. But it has “listicle” detection. If you ask “best lawn mower”, all these “the 5 best lawn mowers of 2023” websites with affiliated Amazon links get pooled into a compact Listicle section, that you can just scroll past and ignore.
That’s crazy. Google/DDG bloat from SEO websites had already driven me out a while ago, so I hadn’t noticed. I’ve been using Kagi for a few months now, and I find I can trust my search results again. Being able to permanently downgrade or even block a given website is an awesome feature, I would recommend it just for that.
Have not used it for programming.
At work, this is to some extent because we haven’t decided yet whether to trust sending away our codebase to be potentially trained on.
In general, this is because I find the agressive FOMO-inducing marketting revolting, and because it would be increasing our dependence on big tech companies where I believe we should do just the opposite.
I did use it once or twice to get pointers on topics I wasn’t familiar with (e.g., new standards or protocols, …), mostly just to get a helicopter view and some sources to follow it up when i was in a rush at work. Would not do that on my personal time.
I wouldn’t object to using an open-source/open-training, ethically trained, self hosted model.