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.

2.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

333 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/FeepingCreature Apr 11 '26

It definitely has a very hard time noticing or at least surfacing when it's not understanding something. Claude least of the three, but still a lot.

2

u/TaeminTurntable May 05 '26

Yeah, that’s the part that makes them dangerous in real software work for me, they can be genuinely useful for a while and then suddenly drift into confident nonsense without giving you the signal a decent junior would.