My work requires a lot of original research, and I'm putting a lot of information online for the first time. I'll run my website until traffic goes to zero. The work is important and I care.

The big change is that traffic from the website covered my bills. Eventually, I'll have to earn a living through other means, and that means I have less energy for it.

I've been seeing lots of sites ban AI content, so it's not just you. At the very least, I think there should be a law that requires AI content, videos, etc. to be identified as AI. It's getting really hard to tell what is even real and what isn't now :(

No. I keep going because I still care.

I flag all "built $X with AI" posts, and downvote all comments on them.

For some reason "vibe coding" irritates me as does slop.

If you are unaware, HN introduced a new rule because of the slop onslaught (onslopt?)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079

It will take time for the hype to wind down still. Still a lot of people thinking they can plant a money tree because code is "easy" now, but it was never really the hard part anyway.