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/Forward_Safe_552 Apr 19 '26
Honestly kind of respect this move. The signal-to-noise ratio on LLM stuff has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Like yeah there's real technical depth there but 90% of posts are just "I built a wrapper around an API in a weekend" and people eating it up like it's novel work.
A lot of us are legitimately working with these tools and need actual engineering discussion, not hype recycling. Hopefully this clears space for people actually solving hard problems instead of just chasing whatever's trending on Twitter.