uBlock filter to hide vibecoding tag

3 points by nikaro

Since this tag has no actual meaning here is an uBlock filter to hide it:

lobste.rs##.tag_vibecoding.tag

jmiven

I'm not sure if you'll even see this, but anyway: Lobste.rs already implements filtering on tags.

taskyliz

That's not what they meant. The tag is misleadingly slapped on every thread because people don't understand how tags work.
- roryokane
  
  I see. The filter hides the “vibecoding” label itself, not stories with that label. So a story with tags “editors vibecoding” would appear to just have the tag “editors”.
- donio
  
  I see the tag on 5 posts out of the most recent 50 (unfiltered /newest). That doesn't seem excessive.
  
  The only one that looks unreasonable is the one on the GRAM thread. I think the problem in that case is that the community wasn't able to remove the tag after it was generally accepted to be wrong. I am not sure how the "suggest" button works exactly. Does it go away once the first suggestion is accepted?
  - gerikson
    
    As far as I know, once a user-initiated tag change has been completed, there's no further option to suggest. A mod has to be involved.
- kantord
  
  honestly I think this flag should be removed and replaced with one that cannot be misconstrued/reinterpreted as "made with AI" or "has been touched by AI"
  
  perhaps it would also help if there was a flag explicitly made to mean "AI-made" to protect the other tag from misuse as well. Previously I argued that there is no need for a separate tag to filter out slop because the upvoting/hiding mechanism is already meant to filter out low-effort/low-quality content. I still think that, but now I think it would be useful for the purpose of protecting the distinction between "about AI coding" vs "made with AI coding", i. e. to protect the other tag from misuse, or help people who just really don't want to see anything that was touched by AI.
  - gerikson
    
    I suggested a tag similar to "made with LLM" here:
    
    https://lobste.rs/s/po97lh/new_tag_suggestion_genai_assisted
    
    kantord
    
    well argued! I agree also with the distinction between "slop" and high-quality content that is "genai-assisted"