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Ask HN: Why people keep posting AI-generated projects around the Internet?

By Eliah_Lakhin 2 min read 0 views 0 comments

Programming-related subreddits and other media platforms are current flooded by the waterfall of AI-generated projects. A typical post contains a problem description and the link to GitHub repo created just recently with sustainable amount of generated code in it. With the invite to review it, and to give a community feedback.The quality of the projects vary, but very often these are codebases generated in a few days solely by the AI-agentic systems with little to no human review and prior history of development and recognition.I'm asking this question not out of critiques. I genuinely don't understand motivation and the roots of this phenomena.Asking for the professional code review seems to be pointless for the publisher. Many of them didn't have prior experience in the programming language in which the code has been generated. Furthermore, the code is seemingly not interested for the publisher either. It does not look to me as a good start for community-driven (F)OSS project anyway.Another motivation that I can imaging is seeking for public recognition. But considering the amount of postings, I think it's highly unlikely in the current situation even for the genuinely…

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