I was responding to the person I was replying to, who confused LLVM with LLM, and who had brought up the slop term. I was surprised that they didn't think it was slop, because of the obvious tells (even with the fixed diagram formatting, there's a lot about that README and ASCII art that say that it was generated by or formatted by an LLM).
One of the reasons that slop gets such an immediate knee-jerk reaction, is that it has become so prolific online. It is really hard to read any programming message boards without someone posting something half baked, entirely generated by Claude, and asking you to spend more effort critiquing it than they ever did prompting for it.
I glanced through the code, but I will admit that the slop in the README put me off digging into it too deeply. It looked like even if it was human written, it's a very early days project.
Yeah, calling something slop is low effort. It's part of a defense mechanism against slop; it helps other folks evaluate if they want to spend the time to look at it. It's an imperfect metric, especially judging if it's slop based only on the README, but it's gotten really hard to participate in good faith in programming discussions when so many people just push stuff straight out of Claude without looking at it and then expect you to do so.
One of the reasons that slop gets such an immediate knee-jerk reaction, is that it has become so prolific online. It is really hard to read any programming message boards without someone posting something half baked, entirely generated by Claude, and asking you to spend more effort critiquing it than they ever did prompting for it.
I glanced through the code, but I will admit that the slop in the README put me off digging into it too deeply. It looked like even if it was human written, it's a very early days project.
Yeah, calling something slop is low effort. It's part of a defense mechanism against slop; it helps other folks evaluate if they want to spend the time to look at it. It's an imperfect metric, especially judging if it's slop based only on the README, but it's gotten really hard to participate in good faith in programming discussions when so many people just push stuff straight out of Claude without looking at it and then expect you to do so.