Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.
I’d hate Rust, but Lunduke hates Rust because trans people write in Rust, so I like Rust just to piss off Lunduke’s homophobic ass
A month!? A lot of these fuckers pop up just over the weekend, and then are never heard from again.
Vibe coded garbage.
Rust really has a reputation. Not only it is associated with slop and snobbery (slobbery?), but also with efforts to steal skill and capability from the community by “rewrite it in Rust”-ing FOSS projects into projects with corporate-friendly licenses that enable wholesale project theft and enshittification.
Seeing slopsayers and rust aficionados fight in the comments is like coming across a baron and revenant going at it in melee.
Hell yeah.
I don’t understand why people do that when writing rust by yourself is so much fun!
Fun?
Blink twice if you’re in danger
This is one of the cases where the actual thing is amazing but the fandom for it is insufferable.
There is nothing wrong with Rust. It’s incredible. I’ve been writing code with it for years.
I’ve been writing it for a month, already released 5 projects. ; )
It does make me sad that Rust is getting so strongly associated with slop. Personally I find it a really fun language to actually program in. The language being expression-based is actually quite handy, and is a concept I wish existed in other languages too. But it is also unfortunately the most sensible language for vibe-coding too because of the performance and guardrails.
And I can’t decide if Cargo or the Python interpreter is the bigger smart ass.
Yeah well you can thank rust tools that are replacing coreutils and somehow finding their way as defaults. Eza is a prime example. Oh pretty icons but you can’t handle ls -larth, so glad you are in rust though. Rust has had a reputation before the slop.
Eza isn’t a reimplementation… it’s its own program. The name of the binary is also
ezanotls. What OS are you using that uses eza instead of ls? I have both installed and havelsaliased toezabecause I find the coloured output to be easier to read (much like syntax-highlighted code is easier to read), but I’ve never seen eza pre-installed on a system, not does it conflict with ls. Package managers let you install both. They’re different programs.you’re not gonna get a reply to these questions, because they installed eza themself and also, separately, heard about ubuntu adopting the uutils reimplementations of coreutils, which of course does not include eza.
Slop code? Missing features? Add in some arrogant wunderkinder and strong vendor push and you’ve got Systemd.
Don’t forget Claude in the contributor list!
Surprisingly not a red flag, it can be used to sabotage potential sloppers.
… is an indication of tooling, not a scarlet letter that AI contributed to the source code. A dev can include AGENTS.md to support automated maintenance (pre-commit hooks, config scripts, Github actions) without making AI part of the software. Does Makefile mean GNU Make wrote your program?
“AI. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means”
Som project intetionally poison it. TouchHLE still does it afaik.
“I built”
It’s a stone, Luigi. You didn’t make it
… with hundreds of commits per day of git history.
I once considered it a privilege to be able to program in rust. Even before, rust code can be quite terse
With LLMs now, I see code that gives my brain an anneurism and programming anti patterns that I didn’t know existed
Although I understand why LLMs prefer rust safety guarantees that make it difficult to shoot itself on the foot
don’t forget “claude rules” on the github project
*CLAUDE.md. With a misattribution clause, to hide that it’s vibe-coded.
Yes, there were projects like this featured on Hackaday the last two weeks.
I remember people hating on calculators, then computers, then the Internet. It’s going to destroy people’s ability to think on their own. Man were they wrong
You remember? How old are you man?
Calculators came out when I was in grade 10
What was Jesus like, Gandalf?
(Ti-83, Casio FX-82 or were you still using the Antikythera mechanism back then :p
Grade 9 was abacus and side ruler. I kid you not. I was born in 64 and it’s incredible how far we advanced things in one generation. I like to think I helped build this world. Lol
Forget Jesus. What was Grug the caveman like? :P
I’ll get off your lawn now, sir.
Ahahhhh
How old are you?
62
For thread OP? I think you mean 6-7
Yep, and it makes it harder to be motivated to actually work on OSS when your work can just be copied and sloppified into 10 other clones the next day
I feel the opposite. I don’t care if you clone my code, I have my personal copy, just like there are many Lemmy instances.
I’m tired of getting useful programs rugpulled on me.
TBF, AI allowed me to make extensions for browsers for my personal use which didn’t exists anywhere. So far, so good for me.
Don’t brag about your wankin extensions unless you’re willing to share bro
This is pretty much the whole dilema though. By sharing it and putting it on GitHub you’re just making the AI slop contributions problem worse.
AI has also enabled me to do so many crazy projects I know are way beyond my skill level in a pre-AI world, and although I’d love to share some of them I’ve determined it’s just not worthwhile. Anyone technically inclined enough and sufficiently motivated can repeat the same process I did if they want similar tools. AI indeed makes mistakes, but it’s scary good at code and has completely revolutionized workflows in every CS position I know of in my company as well as every college CS friend’s company. It’s better at catching edge cases than humans and writes comments that actually explain what a function does in context of the rest of the program. It’s a shame it’s all built on stolen training data and forum suggestions from people who were trying to help others in good-faith, but the end result is an undeniably useful tool.
If you have any project ideas or clearly scoped changes to existing open source software you already use daily, it’s worth trying for yourself. Google Antigravity is my preferred tool for this sort of thing at a hobbyist level and has a relatively generous free tier. VS Code with copilot is more common professionally and although with the right models connected it’s generally better at outputting code that looks less like it’s vibe coded, I wouldn’t say it’s all that much more powerful of a tool for just getting a personal project working.
They are on github, actually. One of them allows betterbird and the likes to set email reminders (reminders as email).
