The problem with AI slop projects is that I could just make my own version of this. All you did was ask the slop generator to make it.
With proper projects like nginx or sqlite there is a ton of knowledge and testing and iteration that has refined it over time. Slop is just a random shot in the dark. Is it a logical design? Who knows. Are there massive security issues? Almost certainly.
You don’t use SQLite because it’s hard to make a database, you use it because it’s hard to do it properly.
> All you did was ask the slop generator to make it.
Is this founded? I know it's popular to trash every new project that's built with AI in the pipeline somewhere, but there's a big difference between a project built by someone with years of experience writing software and some vibing a repo with Claude. Isn't it worth distinguishing between the two?
In the case of this project: a non-technical person couldn't even conceive of this product. So I think some kind of evidence should be presented before we say things like "Is it a logical design? Who knows."
EDIT: Taking a look at the source, it looks very good. https://github.com/losfair/zeroserve/blob/main/src/server.rs is an important part of the functionality, and it looks like it had a fair amount of attention paid to the implementation, including multiple refactors.
It is trained on its own slop. They haven’t trained these models on books for three years at this point. Only on generated slop. (And RL slop upvotes/downvotes from users)
If I handed you thousands of documents which said “Jan-Michael Vincent” all over them, would you need to understand who that is in order to notice the relationship there?
2-3 years ago they changed something and I know tens of people (and I don't know that many people) say that now filling in bank details in the SA itself has become a no-op, and that they (and I) now had to explicitly request a withdrawal of the balance. Often 2-3 times.
And it's not been a matter of waiting. The money just sits there for the better part of a year before people have noticed.
It could be conscious, but none of the current slop models have anything like that. Consciousness requires continuous learning and introspection. A fly isn’t conscious because it follows a hard-coded script.
With proper projects like nginx or sqlite there is a ton of knowledge and testing and iteration that has refined it over time. Slop is just a random shot in the dark. Is it a logical design? Who knows. Are there massive security issues? Almost certainly.
You don’t use SQLite because it’s hard to make a database, you use it because it’s hard to do it properly.