Completely disagree. When AI was new I found so many great tools through awesome-* repositories. There was some of that going on for sure, but most lists were a curation of good tools.
Depending on what "generation of developers" you belong to, this could differ by decades :) Are you talking about LLMs probably? At that point, "awesome" lists were already mostly used for spam and marketing, none of the original "curated list" concept remained at this point.
I think I noticed awesome-lists changing from "Here is a curated list of AWESOME software" to "Here is a list of every software ever built, related in any way" somewhere around 2015 (thanks IM logs!), which must have been pretty shortly after the concept was introduced even, but can't remember when that was.
yup, remember seeing the same around that time. It used to be incredibly curated and limited, every list since then is just like the top 400 "related" repos
I recently came across some notes from a lecture I went to at Los Alamos in 2013 where the lecturer (Steven Brumby) said "it's out of fashion to call it AI now so I guess this is machine learning" .
