It might discourage new contributors and create a sort of chicken and egg situation, also a vouch system has the inherent risks of being camped by bots

What kind of criteria or tests are you imagining?

I am imagining a sandbox environment where the test taker is provided with a medium tier capable LLM, and they are given tasks things like

• given a huge codebase, can you implement a new feature following the coding standards of the codebase and minimally changing the existing code
• a job to change something and follow the cascading effects through all the files it touches, fixing it without breaking things elsewhere
• ability to reign in a LLM that is doing more than you asked it to do

I am sure more experienced people would lay out more scenarios to test for

A certificate after a test would only show capability, not continued practice. So my confidence in it wouldn’t be very high. Demonstrated practice seems more applicable than some cert some time ago. Some people chase certs to check boxes rather than prove or apply the practice.

True, but then again a guarantee that the person knows what they are doing is better than no guarantee at all

in my mind a slop kiddie is no different than a script kiddie, both use the tools they have found with no understanding of how it works, both rarely contribute anything meaningfully new.

as such there are tells, of course I am not suggesting we ignore every anonymous PR, but the ones that broadly fit into certain patterns

who is funding this?

Hopefully some non profit

who gets to decide?

By some new standards community that isn’t biased towards corporate

the real.issue is, there has always been slop submissions but the barrier of entry wa shigh so few people in civilization had the skill and fewer even attempted to submit. now every si gle person alive can submit.

That is what I am hoping my idea would solve

Hey, if we don’t democratize the ability to get that single score some corporate will start charging money to do it and in a few years that will become the standard

drown out the slop. If a slop kiddie makes a 600+ diff PR, you can safely ignore it, but if a license holder makes a PR you consider it.

I truly despise that we stopped innovating on CRTs when flat panels came along.

but CRTs could be more easily repaired. burn in is still a problem on modern OLEDs

on the shitpost meter, you score 75%

on the shitpost meter, you score 75%

on the shitpost meter, you score 50%

on the shitpost meter, you score 45%

on the shitpost meter, you score 55%

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On the shitpost meter, you score 70%

on the shitpost meter, you score 60%

on the shitpost meter, you score 75%

on the shitpost meter, you score 75%