WolfgangMar 14

Sorry for doomerposting... But I think AI slop has killed whatever tiny shreds of passion for the homelab space that I had left. Every other post on r/selfhosted now starts with "I built..." which basically translates to "Claude code built". 50% of those "self-built" projects are for personal use and niche use cases (fine by me), but the other half has the audacity to ask for contributors, donations, testers and offer "business pricing" for their slop. I've now seen at least two self hostable projects go up in flames because of the slop, and many more will probably follow.

Don't get me wrong, I still self host most of my services (because fuck big tech) but because the space is now inundated by LLM-generated garbage, I've lost all interest in enganing with it online.

Show threadMason Loring Bliss

@notthebee As long as you keep running your own stuff yourself, that's what matters.

There are projects that are steering clear of slop, and there will continue to be projects that steer clear of it.

Keep in mind something that amuses me - those of us who aren't using LLM actually remember how to build things, how to write code. And man, there are a lot of us out there. My kids are learning how to do a bunch of this themselves, from programming to animation, and they're not using LLMs. They're building useful skills while many of their peers are learning a new kind of dependence.

Mar 14 at 10:37pmWeb