Dear mods,
Please consider a rule banning screenshots of dashboards and other web apps. Posts on this subreddit should stand alone as images. If someone wants to promote their app, that's fine, but it shouldn't be with a lazy screenshot.
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by HobbesMW
7 Comments
Recent data from reddit data api via PRAW, historical data from [this archive](https://academictorrents.com/details/3e3f64dee22dc304cdd2546254ca1f8e8ae542b4/tech). Classifications were done with gpt-5-mini using [this prompt](https://pastebin.com/raw/1Sut4Ngh). Chart created with matplotlib.
If you made the same post last month, you could say it decreased, rather than doubled. Messy interpretation. I still agree with your point though.
ELI5? What does AI have to do with screenshots in the sub
It would be nice to see if the reason for the barely noticeable increase is actually due to Claude, and not correlation. Especially as the data doesn’t go back that far.
Or somebody was voted US president on November 5th 2024
I’d like to bring up two points:
(1) Is the jump statistically significant? If we need more data I guess we can go back to January 2023 (ChatGPT was released in November 2022). We can also check if ChatGPT or Cursor had a similar impact or if it’s specific to Claude Code.
(2) Most AI tools out there can also pull data and build graphs, in fact it’ll be less of an effort to create an image then a webapp or a web page. So where do we draw the line?
Now do a plot overlayed with the change in users on this sub, the number of post views, and the complexity/topic/interestingness of the posts here as well.