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madroxtoday at 7:24 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm getting so exhausted of the "slop" accusation on new project launches. There are legit criticisms of EmDash in the parent comment that are overshadowed by the implication it was AI coded and, thus, unusable quality.

The problem is there's no beating the slop allegation. There's no "proof of work" that can be demonstrated in this comment section that satisfies, which you can see if you just keep following the entire chain. I'd rather read slop comments than this.

The main engineer of this project is in the comments and all he's being engaged with on is the definition of vibes.


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notahackertoday at 9:27 PM

They called the project EmDash and launched it on April 1st with a blog which brags about how little effort it took to write because of agents before even saying what it is.

If the product launch involves dressing the engineering team up in duck suits and releasing to a soundtrack of quacking, it's really not surprising people are asking the guy they hid behind the Daffy mask on why he's dressed as a duck rather than what he learned about headless CMS architecture from being on the Astro core team...