Banned from r/java for Life After Posting an AI-Assisted Library
Getting Banned from r/java
A Java developer with nearly three decades of experience received a lifetime ban from r/java for sharing a Swing WebView component built with heavy AI assistance, violating the subreddit's new no-AI rule. He reflects on the grief of losing hand-coding, the fairness of AI outpacing years of hard-won skill, and why strict no-AI policies are a fool's errand when tools like OpenJDK likely already contain AI-assisted code.
Insisting on hand-coding a project for these reasons is akin to choosing a shovel over an excavator because you want to build muscles and get a farmer's tan.