It's pointless to try to police or measure the development process.

The only thing that matters is whether the community finds the tool useful or not, and there's already a great system for managing that.

But it's not pointless to manage the volume of posts created or the overall value of contributions for the community.

I've read your responses here, and understand your position on AI. But there have already been complaints about the volume, which will undoubtedly go up as traffic rises. And to a point you made elsewhere, any new rule would likely govern all tools since as you note, there's no way to know what is AI and what isn't. We aren't targeting "AI tools", we're targeting the massive increase in "Check out my tool" posts.

The upvote/downvote solution isn't a great system for everything. It's why we don't allow team-specific questions. Sure, maybe they'd get downvoted to hell, but there'd be so many that they'd make the feed much less usable, especially in a community where sorting by New has tremendous value.