This is clearly a vibe coded project. If I were to critique it taking its warm reception into consideration I wouldn’t necessarily call it slop. Slurry? Soup? A good portion of the discussion here are bug reports about things I could imagine someone who has experience in working with this sort of data would anticipate and address in the flow of development, whether on their own or with an LLM.

Yes it is an ambitious project, yes it is useful in theory, but I’m interested in its viability as a legitimate tool for the sort of people who would rely on it for research purposes as opposed to the sort of people who find it a fascinating project but in practice it is little more than something to pique their curiosity—a toy.

At the same time maybe it doesn’t have to be either. It could just be a display of the initiative and ingenuity of the person behind it. But little else can be inferred about them I reckon.