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https://no-sloptober.com/
40•jeremiahlee•52m ago

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sublinear•42m ago
Are we still going to do the cutesy puritanical celebrations every time we have a differing opinion?

The more you bang any drum, the more noise you are responsible for. If you really care about not using AI, just don't use it. It makes no difference when your sprint still ends next week anyway.

I don't necessarily refuse to use AI, but I am fully aware it's basically a search engine with a modernized "I'm feeling lucky" button (or a decision tree of such buttons when me or my scripts are interacting with it). I don't think that's always the correct choice, but sometimes it is.

It's that simple.

nightski•41m ago
This sounds like that bitter old engineer that is unable to learn and adapt as things change, the kind that gives all of us more senior folks a bad stigma. Times are changing, adapt and grow.
g-b-r•22m ago
That's not growth, it's doing a completely different job, one that many developers loathe.

If you have to change job why not turning to something more pleasant and useful, like plowing fields?

I'd much rather do that then being an AI babysitter.

leetrout•39m ago
Feel like "No Slop November" would be a better name (and easier to succeed in the US since we've got a holiday break.
shagie•26m ago
I believe it's more of a counter Hacktoberfest thing.

https://hacktoberfest.com

    Hacktoberfest 2026: AI belongs to everyone.

    2026
    A new chapter.
    Under the stewardship of long-time partners Major League Hacking (MLH) and DEV, Hacktoberfest refocuses on high-value, meaningful learning. Online and local events (Fests) everywhere, all about building with open source AI.
gndp•39m ago
AI use ≠ Slop

"Slop" primarily means low-quality, mass-produced digital content generated by artificial intelligence.

annoyingnoob•34m ago
Use AI ??= Slop
gcampos•38m ago
A few months ago I had an idea of doing a no LLM hackathon for fun. The idea was to keep the coding skills sharp and have an excuse to not use Claude.
blinkbat•38m ago
"Understand where your own gaps are in your own knowledge and capabality, and are you okay delegating those?"

yes. yes I am.

nalekberov•36m ago
I would love to, but hardly I could do that. I am desperately looking for a job, and AI is the only way I can be “fast enough” while applying to jobs as soon as possible.

I really don’t like 90% of stuff “AI” bring today, but employers today are literally forcing you to use them.

Fraterkes•35m ago
The responses here, and discussions on hn more broadly, make me feel like ai use is something that people are uniquely insecure about.
lukeify•34m ago
This author would've also presumably been the creator of No-Stackoverflow-September and No-Manual-March?

Either way this person has a wildly different take on how they think decent engineers are utilising LLMs in a professional capacity.

uncivilized•28m ago
Maybe it’s you who thinks most “decent” engineers aren’t meat proxies?
cstever•25m ago
Can you please expound on the different ways "decent engineers are utilising LLMs in a professional capacity"? A case study would be great to read to understand better the value of LLMs and how developers use it effectively. Thanks in advance!!
wilg•33m ago
I'm getting tired of the constant stream of low-effort anti AI posts. ("Metaslop" if you will.)
ex-aws-dude•30m ago
Unfortunately we have entered Eternal Sloptember
gavinray•29m ago

  > "Agents can only maintain or INCREASE entropy in a system. Humans are uniquely capable of decreasing it"
This is one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read.
cstever•27m ago
Can you expound on why "This is one of the most ridiculous statements I've ever read."? I think a deeper discussion into the capability of agents to decrease entropy would be very valuable.
WCSTombs•29m ago
In case you feel like branching out beyond the digital completely, I'll leave this here (no affiliation): https://inktober.com/rules
schaefer•29m ago
did I miss something?

There is no author attribution to this webpage?

I feel strongly that I can't take a community challenge seriously if the author can't bother with an author attribution.

sandruso•27m ago
I and my friend started 2years ago something similar but during December.

noaidecember.com

It's fun :)

jjcm•26m ago
I just got back from a 2 week trip to China. I was in some of the more remote parts and my cell wasn't able to connect to their towers in that area, resulting in me not having the tourist VPN.

The side effect was I was fully cut off from my AI tools for those two weeks. I was coding "manually" during that time, and I think I accompished in two weeks what I previously had been able to do in a day. I'm not gonna lie, it was very, very stressful as a solo founder.

The industry moves so fast these days, that the only way to keep up with the speed is to leverage them. While I can appreciate the push of this to help your brain think independently/critically, the opportunity cost of a month of development without LLMs is too high a price to pay.

g-b-r•18m ago
And of course already flagged with no way to unflag it....

AI is getting cheaper more quickly than any other transformative tech in history

https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-price-of-thought
1•vitalnodo•12s ago•0 comments

The strange death of libertarianism

https://spectator.com/article/the-strange-death-of-libertarianism/
1•Fricken•1m ago•0 comments

Eating Alone

https://longreads.com/2026/09/15/convenience-friction-eating-alone/
1•gmays•2m ago•0 comments

Evaluating smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python and JavaScript

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/smolmachines-untrusted-sandbox/
1•binsquare•2m ago•0 comments

AI Abundance Requires a 4-Hour Workweek

https://elnahla.com/4-hour-workweek/
2•notfried•3m ago•0 comments

DuckDB supports a new SQL IDE

https://duckdb.org/docs/preview/guides/sql_editors/libredb_studio
4•abdullahk0634•6m ago•0 comments

MariaDB's official docs now list LibreDB Studio as a graphical client

https://mariadb.com/docs/server/clients-and-utilities/graphical-and-enhanced-clients/libredb-studio
3•devgundogdu•7m ago•0 comments

Dragonfly and LibreDB Studio: Redis-compatible database management

https://www.dragonflydb.io/docs/integrations/libredb-studio
3•cevheribozoglan•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LinearSolveBench, interesting new benchmark to discover linear solvers

https://www.autodidakt.ai/linear-solve-bench
1•hgarud•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jade Email. Unlimited emails for your domain plus AI Agent support

https://jade.email/
1•piesupplies•11m ago•0 comments

Gadgetbridge: A FOSS alternative to your fitness watch's app

https://manualdousuario.net/en/gadgetbridge-android/
2•rpgbr•11m ago•0 comments

UmbrelOS 2.0: Your cloud, at home [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBsKk_NNg2A
1•sashazykov•14m ago•0 comments

Fat Bear Week

https://explore.org/fat-bear-week
2•skogstokig•14m ago•0 comments

Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/metas-new-muse-ai-agent-read-my-private-messages-i-never-asked-it-...
2•frizlab•15m ago•0 comments

Analyzing Jev Outcomes with a Validator

https://gonzo.engineer/posts/validating-jev-outcomes-with-validator/
2•Dowwie•15m ago•0 comments

My Claude Code setup (11 commands, 3 agents) + shared Meta "design third brain"

https://johnmaartifacts.substack.com/
1•mingyukma88•15m ago•0 comments

Jevlish: A JavaScript front end for Jev

https://jacobgoldfarb.github.io/Jevlish/
2•jacobjr23•17m ago•2 comments

Comrade – A P2P Alternative to Tmate

https://github.com/dangowrt/comrade
1•aparcar•18m ago•0 comments

Orbital's Sam Brovda and Bill Ackman get pro-Palestinan woman fired from KPMG

https://twitter.com/RedPillSayian/status/2102195063530938584
5•1832764323•22m ago•1 comments

Aetheria – a local-first agent harness that works online or offline

https://github.com/denisrigsby/Aetheria
2•denisrigsby•23m ago•0 comments

When the Debugger Lies

https://danielmangum.com/posts/when-the-debugger-lies/
1•hasheddan•23m ago•0 comments

The HUGS Stack – Hypermedia, Unix, Go, SQLite

https://housecat.com/blog/the-hugs-stack-hypermedia-unix-go-sqlite
2•theanonymousone•24m ago•0 comments

Voxiferi introduces VoxWall as an 'AI ingress firewall' for bad data

https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-voxiferi-introduces-voxwall-as-an-ai-ingress-firewall-f...
1•CrankyBear•27m ago•0 comments

Why Beyond Traditional RAG?

https://medium.com/@NikoZero11/your-rag-pipeline-doesnt-need-more-retrieval-it-needs-better-decis...
2•Natashiiy•28m ago•2 comments

E-commerce compliance scores range from 13 to 97 across major US retailers

https://stem-education.medium.com/i-ranked-famous-retailers-on-compliance-the-scores-went-from-13...
1•complyyio•28m ago•0 comments

Making Gasoline from Plastic Waste

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/09/260920222405.htm
2•silver92bullet•29m ago•0 comments

GitHub Actions leaking secrets when Miri output is cached

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/21/github-actions-leaking-secrets-when-miri-output-is-cached/
1•metrofun•34m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CatQueue-A zero-dependency PostgreSQL job queue for Node and TypeScript

https://github.com/karanrajsurya/CatQueue
1•karanrajsurya•34m ago•0 comments

A modern, cross-platform font editor built with TypeScript and Rust

https://github.com/shift-editor/shift
2•wg0•35m ago•0 comments

Consider the Chameleon

https://remy.wang/blog/chameleon.html
2•remywang•35m ago•0 comments