My sensor is much simpler. If I see emoji in headings or bulleted lists, I assume it's shit. It might be AI slop, or it might just be kids getting overexcited with the little pictures, but both deserve suspicion and scrutiny.

If a bunch of the emoji don't even make sense it can get in the bin.

[–] eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This comment is so true 🚀🚀🚀

[–] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago

💪

[–] GreyCat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ahhh idk, I saw a lot of genuine repos do emojis, at least for headings. Even before LLMs.

I like them 'cause with the right amount, it makes a README easier to parse when quickly scrolling over it.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

My changelog generation tools output emojis because our lives are too short to not use 🚀

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

As an ancient husk of a person, it all looks crack-addled to me. I don't really see how you can parse out headings from emoji because their usage isn't consistent.

[–] PlexSheep 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I like putting the little pictures in my readmes sometimes. In my biologically generated repositories. Please don't discriminate against neat little pictures you can just put in text 🐑.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Your whimsy hurts me

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

me too!

admittedly imo they are being overused now though