Comment on Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social 5 days ago
I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, write a few issues describing the bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.
That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.
Are there any obvious signs of it being vibe coded that I’m missing?
In my experience, projects not being very active, especially small ones by a single person, isn’t anything new that has much to do with LLMs, it was always that way for hobby projects. And it was inactive for only about a month now, with the author replying within one day before that. I have a few hobby projects myself and don’t reserve time every month to work on them or check on their repos.
rimu@piefed.social@piefed.social 5 days ago No obvious signs, nope. It wasn’t until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.
Dojan@pawb.social 5 days ago This in my experience is the hallmark of a vibe coded project. Individual pieces of code can be perfectly fine, but when you zoom out into an overall structure things get weird. Design patterns changing, same/similar problems solved in different, sometimes conflicting ways.
Been working on a project like that at work. Initially I enjoyed the change of pace, but as I realised that there’s no coherence at all in the project structure my joy turned into frustration.
To me, the most frustrating thing is that you can’t ask someone why something is done in a particular way, because no decision was ever made because no one was there to make a decision. Things just happened.
If you have access to their git, watch out for the commit history. Check how much code each commit is introducing and/or editing and how fast they are, and how many times these big commits happen.
If you see a project with big commits in very short interval of times, it’s a sign that it was vibe coded
HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Seems like your PR was merged by the creator? If you are mad that the creator isn’t doing anything with THEIR OWN project, fork it and fix it yourself… No need to get pissy and make a full complaint post in here about it.
otter@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
It doesn’t sound like OP is mad at the creator, but annoyed at the increased number of projects that are abandoned
It’s hard to judge the longevity of a project, and LLMs can make a project look more stable and professional than it is. It’s fair to feel annoyed if you mess up that call and move your workflow to something that gets abandoned.
artyom@piefed.social 5 days ago
No one got “mad” or “pissy”.
Disagreed. You should blast and air everyone’s embarassing trash as loud as possible so no one misses it.