@crustyrustacean: Sharing your work with others is a hard computer science problem in 2026, the Year of our Lord. You either here the sound of chirping crickets or the sound of "AI Slop" yells.

In a 2026 post on a social platform, user @crustyrustacean lamented that sharing work online yields either silence or accusations of 'AI Slop,' while @stagas replied that his past 3 projects went viral without him writing a single line of code, yet he still felt he engineered them, and most people saw no issue.

Sharing your work with others is a hard computer science problem in 2026, the Year of our Lord. You either here the sound of chirping crickets or the sound of "AI Slop" yells. @stagas /u/stagas?from=%2Fpost%2F2159%23post-2164 |\ /,| \ creative technologist https://github.com/stagas GitHub https://github.com/stagas .|o o | creator of textlog - --- -------- stagas - Overview stagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. open source /tag/open source?from=%2Fpost%2F2159%23post-2164 enter to follow /enter cats /tag/cats?from=%2Fpost%2F2159%23post-2164 enter to follow /enter enter to follow /enter?next=%2Fpost%2F2159 replied to @crustyrustacean /u/crustyrustacean?from=%2Fpost%2F2159%23post-2164 Old school metallian, hobbyist developer writing things mostly in Rust…mostly enter to follow /enter?next=%2Fpost%2F2159 : My past 3 projects went viral. I didn’t write a single line of code in any of them. But I still feel I engineered them. There were a few that noticed but the majority didn’t see an issue.