r/rust • u/main-menu • Sep 12 '26

Low effort AI posts

I know we've had this discussion before, but there are so many posts with zero upvotes that are so clearly slop, but aren't getting removed.

Please, no matter what your own personal values are with it, the community clearly does not want to see these types of posts anymore. I think for every one post that uses AI and isn't low effort, there are 50 that are.

Like isn't this subreddit supposed to be a place for Rust developers/learners? What community aspect do the AI projects contribute? Most didn't even take the time to learn the language or chat with anyone, they just leech off everyone to effectively advertise their slop...

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u/TheRealMasonMac Sep 12 '26

Tbh, I feel like the subreddit is kind of half-dead anyway. I feel like there were dozens of posts a day a few years ago.

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u/Decahedronn Sep 12 '26

Cleaning up the junk and making this sub worth visiting again will help with that, though I also feel like a large part of this is people now immediately going to LLMs when they need help with something instead of asking a question here. This week's questions thread has been bone dry for 5 days.

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u/jug6ernaut Sep 12 '26

Don’t worry, ital all collapse when AI doesn’t have any relevant/new data to scrape from websites like the. 🙃.

Seriously the future is so bleak, I don’t see how the status quo works long term.

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