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Policy2026-08-21 · source-backed
An anonymous single-page manifesto in the tradition of nohello.net, with four rules: treat output as a draft and rewrite it, distill to three sentences, cite the model explicitly if you borrow, and say "no strong opinion here" rather than manufacture expertise. dontpastetheai.com 566 comments. The scale of the upvote is the signal. This is developer culture pushing back on AI-mediated communication, which is a different fight than the one about AI-mediated coding, and it's the first time I've seen the norm stated crisply enough to link at someone.
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