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Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Built Something Good With AI. Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It. **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 8 min read · 5 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A developer shares their experience trying to promote Open Vectorizer, a Rust-based raster-to-SVG engine built with substantial AI assistance, only to be rejected by communities like r/rust and r/opensource due to blanket bans on AI-generated content. The author argues that 'AI-generated' is a poor proxy for 'low-effort' and proposes shifting the quality filter from how code was written to whether the maintainer understands, tests, and takes responsibility for the software. The post includes a concrete example where an AI coding agent discovered a benchmark bug that made the project look better than it was — and the author fixed it and published worse numbers, illustrating responsible AI-assisted development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Why did r/rust remove a project submission that used AI assistance? The subreddit requires project submitters to certify their work does not contain significant AI-generated content, and a project developed with substantial AI assistance cannot honestly make that certification, so the automated rules removed the post regardless of the project's actual quality or the human oversight behind it. _Developers navigating shifting AI-disclosure norms in open source can track policy shifts like these on daily.dev._ ### What questions should determine whether an AI-assisted open-source project is worth trusting, instead of just asking if AI wrote it? Better questions include whether the maintainer can explain the architecture, whether the source is available, whether meaningful tests exist, whether claims are independently reproducible, whether benchmarks are transparent, whether weaknesses are disclosed, and whether the maintainer reviews changes and takes responsibility for them, since these apply equally to human-written and AI-assisted code. _Maintainers weighing how to evaluate AI-assisted contributions can follow this debate on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@ra\_jeeves** · 0 upvotes > A blanket ban on AI generated content is not gonna work. You are just trying to delay the inevitable. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [For open-source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing](https://daily.dev/posts/for-open-source-programs-ai-coding-tools-are-a-mixed-blessing-iif95xwl6) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Rust Project Perspectives on AI](https://daily.dev/posts/rust-project-perspectives-on-ai-c0qyw4zpk) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#svg](https://daily.dev/tags/svg) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-something-good-with-ai-now-some-developer-communities-don-t-want-to-see-it--ozevsgng3) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"I Built Something Good With AI. 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