PureStack: AI-Hype Filtered Technical Programming Feed

Alright, so the wiki is goddamn broken, because of course it is Until someone fixes it, here's the current text of the policy: \# The policy Content about AI and LLMs are considered off-topic with the sole exclusion of \*\*deeply technical\*\* content about implementation. This means that we will remove content such as: \* a review of a new AI assistant tool or model version \* debates about whether there's any use in learning programming anymore, or whether the programming industry is over, or whether CS students can function without AI tools, or whether the junior developer career will exist next year \* news of the latest project to implement an AI policy \* Linus complaining about bad AI-generated code \* debates about whether AI is alive We'll generally allow \*\*deeply technical\*\* content including e.g.: \* a deep dive into transformer architectures \* applying machine learning techniques to new problem spaces (but \*not\* applications of existing LLM tools) \* improvements of ML algorithms using new mathematical tools Note that this is \*in addition\* to applying the subreddit's general rules, such as a ban on \*LLM-generated\* content and off-topic/low quality content. \# The motivation r/programming's content has been dominated by discussion of AI/LLM to an extent that its users are fatigued at a lack of any other content. AI and LLM tools are sweeping professional software development in a way that is dominating online discussions. Additionally, it's dominating \*other\* fields in a way that's bringing attention to previously programming-exclusive topics like machine learning. As a result, r/programming has gone through multi-day periods where its front page is dominated by reviews of coding assistants, discussions of whether programming as an industry is "over", and even fully off-topic posts such as lawyers being sanctioned for trusting AI hallucinations in court. It's gone on so long that we trialed \[a complete ban\](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1s9jkzi/announcement\_temporary\_llm\_content\_ban/) and got \[overwhelmingly positive feedback\](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1t4odyl/looking\_for\_feedback\_on\_ai\_content\_in/) on it. We're not claiming that talking about AI isn't programming, or sticking our heads in the sand and denying the future, or just being doomerist anti-AI luddite fuddy duddies. But there is no mechanism by which the Reddit platform allows us to say "up to 10% of content per day can be AI" so this is the only flood control mechanism we have. \# The future of this policy r/programming mods hope that as the hype dies down that discussion of AI tools will be at a similar volume to other programming topics such as GCs and constraint solvers and IDEs and compilers. When we believe that has happened we will dial this policy back.

Good, this sub more than any others is one I have to report posts on a daily fucking basis, because of the reason for this rule.

Thank you! I've had posts auto-removed when they were about deeply technical topics / engineering deep dives that were *clearly written by a human* for topics *adjacent* to LLMs, like: - Harness engineering - New novel approaches to safety, e.g., SynthID and C2PA and the cryptography and around those, and fruitful discussions of the threat model and how one might defeat these - Novel engineering around long-horizon agent architectures - All kinds of security engineering discussions surrounding agents - Some of the best reads I've read this year are both the novel bugs and zero days (with deep technical breakdown on the bug, the exploit, and the attack) that have swept the world. And of course they happen to involve AI agents powered by LLMs like Mythos. But the LLM is merely incidental. And who doesn't want to read about how researchers defeated Apple's memory integrity enforcements (PAC, MTE, etc.) in novel ways? That's the kind of cool programming content that /r/programming was made for. ...and other really high quality engineering articles and blogs due to the inflexible rules that the bot lumped everything together as "LLM-related content" even if a LLM or transformer architecture was only incidentally involved.

Thank fuck.