alt Hacker NewsSo in 2026, it is more efficient to waste thousands of tokens on rolling your own slop version, rather than adding a feature to something that already exists.
Something like btop has been there for decades and will continue to do so where as this slop tool will be unmaintained or even deleted in a year.
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jawr • today at 11:45 AM
I believe btop was only released in 2021.
htop was released 2024 and top was released 1992.
I agree that the bar is much lower now, but reinventing rather than adding is not a new thing!
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They don’t accept vibecoded PRs and yes, it’s much easier to sit for a evening or two than to wait for maintainers to review PR in a month and wait another month or year for release. I’m not happy, but that’s the reality.