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Comment by steeve

11 hours ago

nobody cares about the website being done with AI because the code of the project itself is not AI

you need to touch grass

The code of the project absolutely does look like it was done with AI lol, it’s a single commit…

  • Claude did rewrote lots of my original messy code. No shame in that? But in the end the interest was in the underlying architecture, applied to nats protocol. Anyway.

  • a single commit doesn't mean it's vide coded you idiot

    1/ AIs are terrible at Zig

    2/ I happen to know the author personally

    • I’d invite you to reconsider the kind of language you’re using to interact with other forum members here.

      Dropping to profanities is not conducive to maintaining an environment that’s facilitating dialogue between its members.

      I’ve seen you at least twice call other members here “you idiot”, “get lost”. Etc. Have a hard think as to whether you could rephrase that without the name calling, and if at worse you can’t manage to, you can always ask an LLM to do it for you.

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  • Dude, when I move projects to GitHub I also often collapse everything into a single commit.

    I do this to avoid having to check e-mail addresses and names in commits - maybe I mistakenly made a commit from my work account etc.

    After the “initial” commit making it all public, I start to work “in the open”. I see many others doing it the same way.

    That is NOT a reliable indicator of slop!

    • And the author has admitted at least some assistance here:

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452841

      There may have been less pushback if this had been expressed up front. But also, what is it ? Is it to "test the architecture applied to nats" or is it to be a fully fledged NATs replacement (as per the impression given by table at the bottom of the website) - which becomes much harder if AI has significantly re-written the authors original code (and commented it badly).

      The website being AI coded I can take or leave.

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    • Nothing individually is a good indicator of slop in itself, a human could also have written this readme full of Claud-isms and a borked ASCII schema or the code littered with idiosyncratic comments.

      It's the convergent set of clues that makes the case.