Should I even bother posting my messy learning projects anymore
Don't want to get in another AI argument but I use these tools for explaining weird compiler messages and making regex patterns which helps me save time. Like others mentioned recently, I decided to write my actual code myself. Not because I'm some purist but because I want to really understand Rust, especially how async/await works with Tokio underneath
Been working for last three months on custom TUI resource monitor. Nothing revolutionary - uses ratatui and sysinfo libraries. Probably has tons of unnecessary clone calls and my error handling is basically unwrap everywhere waiting to crash
But this is my code. Spent weeks fighting borrow checker to make data refresh threads work without race conditions
Problem is when I check new posts, I see two types: obvious low-effort AI stuff that gets destroyed, or real beginners getting attacked by mistake. I'm scared if I share my repository, people won't give useful feedback about my bad lifetime management. They'll just see generic project layout or awkward README (English is my second language) and think "another AI garbage" or karma farming
I used to be excited about open-sourcing learning projects to get advice from experienced developers. Now feels like unless you're releasing perfect production-ready crate, you're just making more noise
Is there still room here for "bad" human code trying to improve, or has AI spam made everyone too suspicious to actually look? Getting close to just keeping this in private repo forever