r/ChatGPTCoding rules, stats, and what to post

This is a community for building, learning, and experimenting with AI-assisted coding. People here share workflows, questions, technical lessons, news, and projects about coding, debugging, testing, and building with AI tools. The description names ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, Cursor, and open-source models as the kinds of tools people post about. The first rule keeps the scope tight: every post has to be about using AI to help with coding, debugging, testing, building, or maintaining software. So the room is working coders and builders who use these tools daily, not general AI chat fans.

Four rules decide most outcomes here. “No pure self-promotion / low-value project posts” is the big one for anyone with a product: posts whose primary purpose is promoting a tool, product, service, repo, personal website, or blog belong in the weekly Self-Promotion thread. The rule gives you a sharp test, delete the link and if nothing is left it was an ad, and it says GitHub links are fine while personal websites are not. “Use the right flair” matters because flair is required and the rule specifically bans using a question or discussion post to indirectly promote a project. “No spam, scams, referral links, or access reselling” bans referral or invite links and codes, even ordinary non-abusive ones, and bans selling or trading accounts, API keys, subscriptions, or model access. “No AI Slop” bans raw AI output and low-value walls of text, though AI used for grammar or clarity is fine. “Stay on topic” and “Be Constructive” round it out: posts must be about using AI to help with coding, debugging, testing, building, or maintaining software, and critique the idea, code, or tool, not the person.

Post the way a builder talks to other builders. A workflow that saved you real time, with the exact prompts or setup and what broke along the way, fits the description perfectly. A debugging story where an AI tool helped you find the bug, told with the actual steps, beats any announcement. A technical lesson, like where a model kept failing and how you worked around it, is exactly the kind of content the description asks for. If you built something, lead with the lesson or the interesting technical problem, and a GitHub link is fine under the rules. Ask specific questions about using AI in your coding work, and pick the flair that honestly matches what your post is. Write it yourself, in your own voice, because raw AI output gets removed under “No AI Slop”.

The fastest removal is a post whose main job is promoting your thing. Under “No pure self-promotion / low-value project posts”, that belongs in the weekly Self-Promotion thread, and the rule's own test is harsh: delete the link, and if nothing is left, it was an ad. It also warns that if you cannot say why your project is better than similar ones, it counts as a low-value project post. Personal websites are called out as not fine, while GitHub links are. Do not use a question or discussion flair to smuggle in a promotion, because “Use the right flair” bans that directly. “No spam, scams, referral links, or access reselling” removes referral or invite links and codes, even harmless ones, and any offer to sell, trade, or distribute accounts, API keys, subscriptions, or model access. “No AI Slop” removes raw AI output and low-value walls of text, so do not paste unedited generated text. Off-topic posts break “Stay on topic”, and harassment, insults, or hostile low-effort replies break “Be Constructive”.

The line that stands out to me is the delete-the-link test in the self-promotion rule: if nothing is left after you remove the link, it was an ad. That is a genuinely useful gut check before you hit post. I also like that GitHub links are fine while personal websites are not, because it tells you this room rewards working code over landing pages.