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Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude? Not every project that uses AI is immediately "AI slop". > This is a hob

by rvz 2mo ago

Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude? Not every project that uses AI is immediately "AI slop". > This is a hobby project. I rely on AI to speed up the work (including the writing and maintenance of the webpage and the markdown files you see here). If you spot a mistake, you're welcome to contribute a fix in the form of a PR. The author is inviting your hand written assembly skills to help him reduce the "slop"

nullsanity 2mo ago
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Sohcahtoa82 2mo ago
The term "AI slop" has lost all meaning. It was originally coined to mean low-quality material that was obviously generated by AI, like pictures of humans with distorted features and the wrong number of fingers. But a whole bunch of people have decided that anything generated by AI is "slop", regardless of quality. It's absolutely obnoxious, especially when people label things as "slop" when AI was merely used for brainstorming and the final product does not contain any AI-generated material at all.
- glhaynes 2mo ago
  “I really liked this until I found out it was AI slop.”
  - Sohcahtoa82 2mo ago
    That one really grinds my gears.
- ColdStream 2mo ago
  I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff. It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freely. Some times justified, other times just folks trying to grab some power over others.
- badsectoracula 2mo ago
  FWIW "slop" seems to have become a more general slang nowadays, i see people use it on Discord and Twitch to describe all sorts of stuff often unrelated to AI.
ColdStream 2mo ago
I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool. I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or weeks that previously could have been months. Projects that don't really have much value in terms of money but are just nice to have kind of things. This project is a great example of this. It does come back to that question though of who will pay for the code generation but that is something for someone else.
- userbinator 2mo ago
  I'm more impressed by this than AI-generated images; a few tiny imperfections in the latter are not a big deal, and even humans often make mistakes with little effect, but code has a far higher bar of correctness to meet. The fact that AI can even generate working real-mode 16-bit code reasonably well and not turn into Electron-levels of inefficiency was most surprising.
  - ColdStream 2mo ago
    Exactly this! Recently I saw a project that is heavily AI assisted to port Doom to the Neo Geo. That is hardware that works in a totally opposite fashion to how Doom runs. It is a 12Mhz 68K chip with no frame buffer. And yet, they are making it work and with surprising performance. Considering how little open Neo Geo code is probably out there to train on, that these models can build to this is very impressive.
    - anthk 2mo ago
      Eh, wait. I remember the NeoGeo having a m68k CPU's AND some kind of VPU/PPU a la NES but for 16 bit machines, a 24 bit one. Far more powerful than an Amiga or a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in the US).
Narishma 2mo ago
OP wasn't talking about code but aesthetics.
prmoustache 2mo ago
> Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Probably because the web page is. It is almost unreadable because of the style.
- rvz 2mo ago
  You are the only person on this thread that answered my question and gave a clear reason.
pelasaco 2mo ago
> Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude? Just to make it correctly: Author isn't writing code with Claude. Claude is writing code for the Author. Nothing wrong with that. But that's how it is.

by rvz 2mo ago

nullsanity 2mo ago

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Sohcahtoa82 2mo ago

The term "AI slop" has lost all meaning. It was originally coined to mean low-quality material that was obviously generated by AI, like pictures of humans with distorted features and the wrong number of fingers. But a whole bunch of people have decided that anything generated by AI is "slop", regardless of quality. It's absolutely obnoxious, especially when people label things as "slop" when AI was merely used for brainstorming and the final product does not contain any AI-generated material at all.

glhaynes 2mo ago
“I really liked this until I found out it was AI slop.”
- Sohcahtoa82 2mo ago
  That one really grinds my gears.
ColdStream 2mo ago
I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff. It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freely. Some times justified, other times just folks trying to grab some power over others.
badsectoracula 2mo ago
FWIW "slop" seems to have become a more general slang nowadays, i see people use it on Discord and Twitch to describe all sorts of stuff often unrelated to AI.

ColdStream 2mo ago

I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool. I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or weeks that previously could have been months. Projects that don't really have much value in terms of money but are just nice to have kind of things. This project is a great example of this. It does come back to that question though of who will pay for the code generation but that is something for someone else.

userbinator 2mo ago
I'm more impressed by this than AI-generated images; a few tiny imperfections in the latter are not a big deal, and even humans often make mistakes with little effect, but code has a far higher bar of correctness to meet. The fact that AI can even generate working real-mode 16-bit code reasonably well and not turn into Electron-levels of inefficiency was most surprising.
- ColdStream 2mo ago
  Exactly this! Recently I saw a project that is heavily AI assisted to port Doom to the Neo Geo. That is hardware that works in a totally opposite fashion to how Doom runs. It is a 12Mhz 68K chip with no frame buffer. And yet, they are making it work and with surprising performance. Considering how little open Neo Geo code is probably out there to train on, that these models can build to this is very impressive.
  - anthk 2mo ago
    Eh, wait. I remember the NeoGeo having a m68k CPU's AND some kind of VPU/PPU a la NES but for 16 bit machines, a 24 bit one. Far more powerful than an Amiga or a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in the US).

Narishma 2mo ago

OP wasn't talking about code but aesthetics.

prmoustache 2mo ago

> Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Probably because the web page is. It is almost unreadable because of the style.

rvz 2mo ago
You are the only person on this thread that answered my question and gave a clear reason.

pelasaco 2mo ago

> Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude? Just to make it correctly: Author isn't writing code with Claude. Claude is writing code for the Author. Nothing wrong with that. But that's how it is.