Could have said “awesome repositories considered harmful”

What’s the LLM equivalent of SEO?

I’m wondering if there are techniques people are using to get their content featured by LLMs. Of course you won’t get clicks or attribution so maybe there’s no point.

Like YT vids, anything titled with AWESOME, leaves me suspicious.

Were they ever awesome? By design, they attract projects looking for visibility etc.

Most of those so-called awesome lists have zero to very little no human judgement when new projects are included. One example I found in the wild is [0], which has ca. 50 awesome projects already while libghostty isn't even stable. I doubt that even 10% of those projects are anywhere good, let alone _awesome_.

I, for one, would like to have an opposite — awful-<something>. Just so we know which things we should avoid. With AI, it's getting even more important to know what to use.

[0]: https://github.com/Uzaaft/awesome-libghostty

I mean, even at the time of creation, when it was still timely, a link to a top 50 downloaded packages list is a pretty shitty link to include.

Even before slop, I found a lot of those awesome lists and CS degrees repos useless.

Most of these were as slop as they are now.

The difference today is just that AI has supercharged the sloppening, making it obvious even to the most oblivious of observers, that the format has issues.

Which is a common theme in many things that have been "ruined by AI"

It's kind of inevitable that they stale because of the growth. Let's say it is about programming language - if it's good language then there're more good materials about it, that means more content to maintain in an "awesome repo", and then again and again, with or without AI it would go fully stale or unmaintainable.

I guess there's no solution, these things should go to history and we need to find a better way to find "best of the best" individually while avoiding SEO-hacked resources with some bs. I actually think there's future in individual learning, so everybody will have their own learning plan, their own learning materials and all that adapted to the way they think and consume information.

Disagree. Some material is just timeless or even just having a name is good to go on compared to knowing nothing before.

AI is nice but never gives the same answer, will tunnel you if you have zero idea on the topic, and can be outright wrong or refuse to answer.

awesome-selfhosted was a favourite, but has become outdated. Other awesome repos have become a target for self promotion and junk.

Were they ever?