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Why hobby coders treat AI-written code as missing the point

Fogus names 7 hobby programming communities where the learning, not the working code, is the product.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 12, 2026
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hobby programming communities — Photo by Random photos 1989, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
hobby programming communities — Photo by Random photos 1989, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)

A programmer named Fogus came across a GitHub argument about chess engine development and wrote about why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models. Hobbyists say is working code isn't the goal. They like to build operating systems, programming la…

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