I wonder how long until people stop tagging things with #ai... because everything's AI?
Maybe there's a little time left.
Remember when everything was listicles? I'm almost nostalgic for those days. At least you could identify them at a glance. Now it often takes a paragraph or two before you click that it's slop.
But it's not the slop I'm trying to stop. At least, not directly. It's the fact that everything on my feed is about how to AI harder.
Now, DEV supports hiding tags. I think I did find this out a while ago, but forgot. Last thing I remember, you could only weight tags, from somewhere hidden in your profile. Setting something to a negative weight theoretically made it show up less (but still show up). I never found it that helpful.
I'd not really bothered before because the site used to be a reasonable balance of articles, if skewed a little towards web development. That's not the case in 2026.
But it turns out there is still content left that's about development, and you can get to it by blocking everything AI.
Since noticing (or re-noticing) that you can "hide" tags, I've hidden every combination of AI1 I found, and my feed is now... about development again?
And since I started this, and because I'm on a mission at this point, I've also used my Adblock superpowers to get rid of all the little robot icons and "agent" CTAs encouraging me to not author my own post.
I had all but abandoned this place.
But maybe, maybe there's a little time left.
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while I'm at it, everything not about development or about how to get rich quick: #ai, #blockchain, #crypto, #gemini, #geminicode, #openclaw, #opencode, #mcp, #seo, ... ↩
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The internet?