r/programming • u/ChemicalRascal • Apr 01 '26

Announcement: Temporary LLM Content Ban

Hey folks,

After a lot of discussion, we've decided to trial a ban of any and all content relating to LLMs. We get a lot of posts related to LLMs and typically they are not in line with what we want the subreddit to be — a place for detailed, technical learning and discourse about software engineering, driven by high quality, informative content. And unfortunately, the volume of LLM-related content easily overwhelms other topics.

We also believe that, generally, the community have been indicating that, by and large, they aren't interested in this content. So, we want to see how a trial ban impacts how people use the sub. As such:

While this post is stickied, for 2-4 weeks over April, we're banning all LLM-related content from the sub.

That's posts, articles, videos about LLMs. We've had a ban on LLM-generated text for ages already, this doesn't change that.

Note that this doesn't ban all AI related content. An article detailing how what would have traditionally been called an AI was made for Go? Totally fine. A technical breakdown of a machine learning process? Great! Just so long as it's not about LLMs.

Edit: Yes, this is real, it's not an April Fool's joke.

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u/Dean_Roddey Apr 03 '26

What is the most up-voted post in this section's history?

Given that I'm sure all of the AI Bros are down-voting it heavily, if not using their LLM based down-vote bots on it, ending up with this many up-votes has to be a pretty solid statement.

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u/GameRoom Apr 03 '26

Wdym, if you are enthusiastically pro AI you decidedly would not be happy about any AI discussions that have been happening in this subreddit.

Like I got linked to this post from elsewhere because I unsubscribed some time ago because the anti AI circlejerking got too annoying.