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Start free trial →Syntax (Wes Bos & Scott Tolinski) · Hands-On Engineering Podcasts · November 2026
Tolinski reacts to r/opensource banning AI use entirely. He objects most to the rule against using AI to translate, which he reads as turning away non-native English speakers.
Come on. But
…Absolutely. Absolutely. I don't think that's a conspiracy theory. Yeah. Like it adds to their daily active users. Like any place you go, it looks like the site has activity. So there's, it's, it's supposed to push and pull in order to decide like what they actually do about the bot traffic. So.
Yes. On that same note as Reddit Closing in that regard, another community on Reddit has also closed. And that is the R open source, which is the largest Reddit open source community, has shut its doors to anybody who even glances at the word AI. They've made it very clear that you can't even use, if you do not speak English well, you cannot even use AI to translate your text. And they suggest that maybe this isn't the community for you if you do not speak English well. They literally say that. I think they've lost their mind over at open source. When you can't even talk about are you sharing your screen?
Sorry.
No, I'm not. I'm just talking in general. If you cannot even talk about the Linux kernel contributions or anything in regards to any of that stuff, you are out of your mind. You've taken the exact opposite stance of open source in general and have closed it down. It's crazy to think like, oh, I'm…
that's it. That's obviously nailed. Everybody has everything that's open source version and everyone makes a new open source version of something and then abandons it a week later.