Many of developers communities are asking the wrong question.
Not because they're wrong to worry about low-effort work, no, but the filter they're using doesn't actually separate maintained engineering from generated slop. It just separates projects based on which tools were involved in their creation.
Imagine trying to share a work that you're really proud of, with the help of AI assisting it, the idea's yours but your work gets flagged, rejected, or buried under comments like "no you didn't" and "I hate how there's so many AI projects these days." Someone definitely felt righteous after saying this, believing they're protecting themselves from low-effort slop.
Except that's not actually what they're protecting against. They're protecting against a label.
The Distinction
