Dev Calls on X to Ban AI Slop Reply Accounts Flooding viral Threads
generativist · x · 2026-10-28
Developer thdxr noted that least-privilege granular API keys are now easy to adopt at scale — just have your agent set them up. But the replies to his post were flooded by AI slop accounts, prompting dillonmulroy to call on X to ban AI slop reply accounts. A snapshot of the growing problem of AI-generated reply spam degrading developer discourse on the platform.
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