Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.
Not an ai shill but I think it’s fine that people use ai to make foss. You have no obligation to use it. And I am pretty sure that 80% of users with negative comments would not be able to program software any better i.e. more secure and fewer bugs. Ai made me a driver for a label printer to run on Linux. Code looks fine to me when I skimmed through it although I am by no means a pro programmer. I shared this on github. Shoot me!
Ai usage is not black and white.
The last one is the only part that matches the meme.
I got my first ever random contributor pull request for my little hobby project just the other day and was super excited about it. After looking it over and other work by the author, I suspect it could be AI written and that really took the wind out of my sails. I haven’t confirmed but I hate that I have to worry about it
I really don’t care if someone wants to create a tool using an LLM. However, it’s hard to feel good about starting to use an application that has been vibe coded in the last month since I doubt that the author will actually maintain their work. If something works I don’t particularly care about the details of how it was made, but I do care about whether or not the tool will even exist in the near future. There’s no point in adopting a new application or tool if it’s going to just be immediately abandoned.
How is someone using ai to code a meat proxy? The person guiding the AI is the one with the idea?
I thought meat proxy is someone that uses AI to think , asking it everything and then just regurgitating that instead of coming up with their own thoughts or ideas.
How is someone using chef to cook a pizza a customer? The person guiding the chef is the one with the idea?
Not sure that’s a good analogy…
where giga?
It is less of a marketing for Rust rather giving it a new name: Slop Language.
Not because it is slop, it is great but the way people are using it is not very great
It’s way worse when they don’t feel like they have to disclose that it’s slop.
Piefed devs in absolute shambles. Lemmy devs catching unintended heat. Perfection
I’d hate Rust, but Lunduke hates Rust because trans people write in Rust, so I like Rust just to piss off Lunduke’s homophobic ass
I don’t know why people would hate rust. It is a fast, memory safe language. There is nothing wrong with it in itself. Its just that the fact it is significantly easier catch mistakes as it usually won’t compile if there is a problem, which makes it good for AI to use as it is harder to screw up long term.
I don’t hate Rust, but I do get annoyed by and suspicious of the evangelism for it I often see. This is by no means unique to Rust but it does seem to be seeing a very aggressive push even into trying to fix/replace tried and tested things that aren’t broken. It has that feeling of aggressively taking everything over.
The hate is at least partly because there is and has always been a holy war over programming languages. Your choice of programming language greatly affects me. The software you write in language A (usually) can’t interoperate well with the software I write in language B. You end up with duplication of effort and many implementations of a thing, one for each language, usually more than one, with differences between them that makes things complicated. You have more choices when there are more languages, adding complexity to the making of software. I would say Rust gets the brunt of the hate because it’s new, but in 2026 that’s not really true anymore.
Lunduke just hates it because he thinks it’s “woke”
Kids these days with their woke (checks notes) programming languages.
Fair
it’s funny to see people like him get butthurt about LGBTQ+ people existing
My father invented the question mark
I don’t believe you. Is a shorn scrotum spectacular? Was your mother a French prostitute?
A month!? A lot of these fuckers pop up just over the weekend, and then are never heard from again.
Vibe coded garbage.
Rust really has a reputation. Not only it is associated with slop and snobbery (slobbery?), but also with efforts to steal skill and capability from the community by “rewrite it in Rust”-ing FOSS projects into projects with corporate-friendly licenses that enable wholesale project theft and enshittification.
Can you explain this? Rust is a programming language, so what do “corporate-friendly licenses” have to do with what programming language somebody is using?
This is probably a reference to (canonical?) Rewriting gnu coreutils in rust and changing the license from GPL to MIT
I don’t understand why people do that when writing rust by yourself is so much fun!
Fun?
Blink twice if you’re in danger
This is one of the cases where the actual thing is amazing but the fandom for it is insufferable.
There is nothing wrong with Rust. It’s incredible. I’ve been writing code with it for years.
I’ve been writing it for a month, already released 5 projects. ; )
>Welcome, what is your name?
Intl
>Have a good day Intl!
Exiting program…
Hello world!
