ooh yeah shit this project sounds right up my alley

[hannah@moonserver.yorha.nexus]

@cwebber@social.coop It's always so sad to see... ​​

[ndw@toot.wales]

@cwebber I had exactly that experience over the weekend. Wanted a library to extract metadata from .flac files, found one that looked like it would do the job, Claude listed as a contributor. Nope. Shelling out to metaflac will do just fine.

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@cwebber honestly the people freaking out about the security of Chinese open source contributions and then going ham on this gastown bullshit kinda show what its really about don't they

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ariadne @cwebber I would infinitely prefer to have Chinese contributors over Claude users

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark @cwebber I still just type shit into google, not up to date on the latest tech

[randomgeek@masto.hackers.town]

@cwebber I've come to the conclusion that an overambitious project description is my first warning flag to start looking for (AGENTS|CLAUDE).md and terrible code. Not just superlatives, but feature list.

> Twenty seven tangentially related capabilities! Completely configurable! Written in my new language Scrum, a Scheme with all of Rust's features that cross-compiles to every platform ever made!

> Amiga? Isn't that spanish or something?

An exaggeration for effect, but not much of one.

[bdf2121cc3334b35b6ecda66e471@mastodon.social]

@zaire @cwebber what do they need contributors for? They have AI!

[doomquakekeen@toot.gnous.eu]

@cwebber
quite ironically, i'm starting to appreciate the somewhat honesty (based on what they used really) of these people.
at the very least, you're not left to wonder whether or not you're looking at slop after seeing the author boasting about llm for another project/contribution they made.

[lhp@mastodon.social]

@ariadne @cwebber I have still genuinely no idea what that gas town thingy even really is. Every time I try to look it up, my mind just filters out all the buzz words and then there is nothing left...

[ariadne@social.treehouse.systems]

@lhp @cwebber it is this: https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown