alt Hacker NewsProjects like this really need to disclose how much ai was used. Otherwise my default assumption is it’s slop, which would be a bummer if someone carefully crafted this with some light ai assistance.
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I was under the impression that this person is pretty heavily dependent on Claude.
And for example, it's a weird signal to me when somebody believes the reason X11 has baggage is because it does byte swapping for endianness. This statement alone taints the entire rationale for the project.
Checked and as with many project in HN, this is very slop..I am sure author haven't even reveiwed more than 20% of the code.
I agree, as soon as people start proudly tagging their vibe-coded projects, the sooner people will stop judging AI projects as "slop" based on nothing at all.
Seems pretty accurately disclosed to me https://github.com/joske/yserver/graphs/contributors