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After trying to click through some of the docs and realizing most of those sections don’t exist, I checked the commit log. I can confidently say there is a lot
by Aurornis 11mo ago
After trying to click through some of the docs and realizing most of those sections don’t exist, I checked the commit log. I can confidently say there is a lot of AI slop in here. Anyone who has watched one of the AI coding tools add imaginary sounds-good features to a project and draw useless diagrams in README files will recognize it.
So now the question is: Does this repo actually contain anything useful at all? Or is it just one big AI vibecoding project that amassed 1.3K stars based on sounding really amazing from the README? I’m leaning toward the latter.
There are no usable instructions for actually trying this out, as far as I can see. It does claim to have a section for deploying and scaling with Kubernetes, which is hilarious for something that is supposedly working with WiFi routers.
I’m continually amazed at how much leverage people are getting out of letting vibecoding tools run absolutely wild and then posting it to GitHub. I wouldn’t be surprised if the author was leveraging this in job interviews based on the almost certainly correct assumption that many interviewers will assume it’s real without checking anything. This kind of trick won’t work at a real company or with a serious hiring manager, but if you can impress a recruiter and get in front of a checked out hiring manager who just wants to build their empire this kind of thing can work. For a while.
EDIT: This has 123 forks!? Now I’m going down the rabbit hole of exploring all of the other vibecoding and spam accounts that are forking this. This is a weird chapter in GitHub development.
- 112233 11mo agoWould be interested to read your findings, please do a follow-up!