Comment by varun_ch
13 hours ago
One interesting side effect of having a LLM write the thing including the README, is that the models tend to leave little hints of the authors intention or prompt as over-explained passages that make it obvious that AI help was used.
https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom?tab=readme-ov-file#how...
eg. > A browser hitting the same URL gets a tiny landing page that just shows the one-liner
it’s subtle but once you notice it, it’s hard to miss.
As an aside, I feel like projects like this used to be really fun and impressive (I guess due to the fact that you’d think “Wow a human put their time into this wacky crazy thing”), whereas now you can have Claude consistently crap out something like this in 5 minutes, so it ruins the whole appeal to me…
Not to mention that the objectively bad practice of piping a curl call to bash is nowhere close to "playing doom via curl". It's almost as if they simply prompted "play doom with curl". In my experience, almost any overly-ambitious prompt ends similarly.
But that's not what it does, the bash option just saves you from doing stty setup and reset I think? You can just type it all out by hand, too, as the readme explains
You know what, I stand corrected. I missed this portion of play.sh: https://github.com/xsawyerx/curl-doom/blob/ae1edb82e48efcd2d...
I'm not changing where I stand on piping to bash.
Oh wait I didn't even register that! yeah of course you can do anything in a terminal using curl if you're piping to bash!!!
Is there any interest in 100% human-made malarkey like this still? I know the nonstop firehose of AI "art" has sharpened my interest in even the worst human-created art.