I Built Something Good With AI. Now Some Developer Communities Don't Want to See It.

I recently tried to share an open-source project I've been working on called Open Vectorizer . It's a raster-to-SVG vectorization engine written in Rust. It runs locally, compiles to WebAssembly, has a reproducible benchmark suite, and competes surprisingly well with established tools like Potrace and VTracer. I wanted people to see it. More importantly, I wanted contributors. That's where things got weird. First, Hacker News Open Vectorizer felt like a natural fit for Show HN. It's open source. It's technical. There's an interesting algorithm behind it. There are benchmarks people can reproduce and argue about, which I'm told is approximately 73% of Hacker News' renewable energy supply. Except I couldn't submit a Show HN. Hacker News is temporarily restricting Show HN submissions from newer users because of a large influx of people unfamiliar with the community. Fair enough. Annoying, but understandable. So I tried Reddit. Then r/rust Open Vectorizer is written in Rust, so r/rust seemed like an even more obvious place to share it. The post was automatically removed. The subreddit now requires project submissions to certify that they do not contain significant AI-generated content . And that's something I can't honestly certify. Open Vectorizer has been developed with substantial AI assistance. So I didn't repost it. Then r/opensource Surely an MIT-licensed project actively looking for contributors belongs in an open-source community. Their rules include: All AI-generated content is low-effort and ban worthy. At this point I had to appreciate the situation. I had an open-source project. I wanted humans to contribute to it. And some of the communities containing exactly those humans didn't want me to tell them about it because machines had helped write it. Here's the problem I actually understand why these rules exist. AI has made it incredibly cheap to produce software-shaped objects. You can ask an agent to build a database, publish 20,000 lines to GitHub an hour l