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this is FreeAssembly, a non-toxic design, programming, and art collective. post your share-alike (CC SA, GPL, BSD, or similar) projects here! collaboration is welcome, and mutual education is too.

in brief, this community is the awful.systems answer to Hacker News. read this article for a solid summary of why having a less toxic collaborative community is important from a technical standpoint in addition to a social one.

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in the same vein as AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and a fuckton of other repo spam, I present AAA-NO-SLOP.md, a file for humans viewing repositories that signals two things:

  • this repository doesn’t accept LLM contributions of any kind
  • every other LLM instruction in this repository (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and all the rest) is poisoned and designed to deter LLM use

enjoy!

for any guests who stumble upon this thread: no I’m not entertaining discussion on why I’m doing this or how I shouldn’t do it

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[–] self@awful.systems 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I started from a vague memory of something that used to screw up LLMs (the grandma trick) and wrote whatever sounded fun from there

there’s absolutely no guarantees it’ll do anything to an LLM as spending money on tokens to test it felt gross, but it’s a hopefully memorable starting point for people to grow on

in the very worst case it gives the humans reading the repo a laugh (always worth it), fills a bit of the context window of visiting LLMs with nonsense, gives visiting slop coders absolutely nothing to work with, and acts like a canary (if you’re viewing a diff that changes these files and you weren’t expecting changes, someone using an LLM slipped up)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

gives the humans reading the repo a laugh

It sure did its job with me!

[–] self@awful.systems 0 points 6 hours ago