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> Lobsters has a funny obsession with being anti-AI, but the most commented posts on the front page are usually AI related. The top five most filtered-out tags

by latexr 2mo ago

> Lobsters has a funny obsession with being anti-AI, but the most commented posts on the front page are usually AI related. The top five most filtered-out tags¹, excluding meta², are (in order): vibecoding, dotnet, php, emacs, ai. Two of the five are AI-related. The top spot (vibecoding) has 60% more people filtering it than the second spot. ¹ https://lobste.rs/filters https://lobste.rs/filters ² In the sense of being about the website itself, not Facebook’s parent company.

bitwize 2mo ago
Wait, how is Emacs AI-related aside from being written in Lisp?
- latexr 2mo ago
  It’s not. Neither is php or dotnet. I meant to write “two of the five”, not “three of the five”. Fixed. Sorry about the confusion.
  - debugnik 2mo ago
    I'd argue dotnet is about AI. The official blogs and conferences have been hijacked by AI products, much like VS Code.
Aurornis 2mo ago
So less than 4% of the userbase filters out vibecoding stories? This looks like a big red herring. Every time I open up the lobste.rs home page, there's an 80% chance the most commented on stories are related to AI in some way. Other stories are lucky to get 10 comments.