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New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:06:57 +0000

> I would say this is a fair question, and that slop can be laundered when there are multiple collaborators and at least one of them knows what they are doing.

Sounds like you consider Vim and Linux to be slop by your definition. As an example:

https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/?since=2026-08-02&...

Claude's contributions are littered around the vim's C codebase, so surely Vim is now a 100% slop TUI?

So my question still remains, what tool do you think isn't a 100% slop TUI?

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:36:18 +0000

This is what is wrong with the world today.

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:32:29 +0000

Right but it doesn't answer my question about what you don't consider a slop TUI though.

> Slop is slop when the author could not have done it without the AI.

For Vim (1.) and Linux's AI adoption policies, there are some contributors who couldn't have made a PR / patch without AI. Are Vim and Linux now considered slop because they allow AI contributions?

(1.) https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#using...

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:46:33 +0000

> So, volunteer time for free for someone else?

Yes.

You know the project is OSS, you found the problem, you can fix it or open and issue instead of complaining to me about it.

Problem solved.

That benefits everyone rather than forking a project and starting all over again and wasting effort.

I cannot reproduce the problem, so I can't fix it.

But since you're complaining about it and you have the right skills, you can!

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:40:34 +0000

Never said you can't.

You can fix it though or open an issue.

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:52:56 +0000

Curious what you consider those that aren't 100% 'slop', aside from the common ones.

Because I'm starting to see the word 'slop' as a synonym for:

"This person may or may not have used AI to build software and I don't like it"

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:32:59 +0000

This is what is wrong with the world today.

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:29:01 +0000

It is almost like they want to be ripped off, the massive amount of gatekeeping is bizzare.

Financial information should be free for everyone.

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:03:55 +0000

> What do you mean? It's linked on the Github repo...I think a site that doesn't work properly is a bad one. That's just my opinion.

I mean isn't this the point of open source?

You can fork the repo and fix the problem instead of complaining?

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:29:32 +0000

> The download button doesn't even work properly. Clicking download in the top right gives me a .dmg, the other download button in the hero gives me the .exe, the one in the footer gives me a .dmg

I mean, it works for me?

The site is clearly not ready and maybe they didn't expect people to find it, but that doesn't mean the site is bad.

It is just a work in progress.

I'm not even interested in the site anyway the software and the source interests me more.

https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb

New comment by dpmartinez in "Gloomberb"

dpmartinez — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:05:50 +0000

> How well do you think their terminal works if they couldn't even spend the time to clean up their vibe coded website?

Your website is literally down.

https://i.postimg.cc/YCdkwZZq/image.png

And I don't think their website is that bad.

New comment by dpmartinez in "Unix philosophy is dead Long live something else?"

dpmartinez — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:57:12 +0000

> Unless you're a nerd, CLI interfaces are passé.

Not for AI agents.

Unnecessary and Unstable: Why Stablecoins Are Bad

dpmartinez — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/stablecoins_bad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411165

Points: 4

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