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I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward. > “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wea
by alexyoung 1mo ago
I realise I’m pissing into the wind here, but I find the LLM text on the homepage and docs quite funny/ awkward.
> “Ctrl+M turns it into a tiny player that wears any classic Winamp 2 skin, spectrum analyser, equalizer, and playlist included. 2000s vibes, pixel for pixel.”
Everything is said with too much intensity, and phrasing that sounds impressive but doesn’t really mean that much. Like “wears any classic Winamp 2 skin” feels so awkward, what’s “wears”? You mean it can use it?
I feel like if you can’t be bothered to write the code, at least document it yourself and write the marketing copy so I know you understand the product. Otherwise how can I trust running it on my computer? Did the LLM generate some amazing rm -rf somewhere, or another blunder that wrecks data I might care about?
- doublerabbit 1mo agoI too enjoy wearing the RealPlayer skin of the 90's. Makes me look very chic.
- bryanrasmussen 1mo agoIf the last twenty years of horror movies have taught me anything it is that maybe you can't be a real player, but you can always wear their skin!
- jcarrano 1mo agoIf it can transform into Winamp I don't care if the code is LLM generated, typed by infinite monkeys or found in some ancient scrolls. Jokes aside, how can you be sure that the official Spotify app (or any app, or Windows) was not written by a LLM without supervision?
- phatfish 1mo agoThe official Spotify app has some skin in the game. Random dudes self promotion project, not so much.
- ornornor 1mo agoI suspect the official app would actually be more consistent and not as bad to use if it was generated by an LLM.
- hk__2 1mo agoNot OP but I don’t really care if it was or not. All I know is that I’ve been using the Spotify app 10+ years and it works well. I don’t know if this random app works, and if it hasn’t been supervised I doubt it does.
- zacmps 1mo agoGave it a quick try today, it works pretty well and is noticeably faster than the official app.
- MrGilbert 1mo agoInterestingly enough, https://fastpotify.rocks/winamp/ https://fastpotify.rocks/winamp/ shows what I dislike about LLM-generated text: From "The buttons do what they say [...]" to "[...] a different format and are not supported" is just a huge wall of text without any visual guidance. It's as if the person writing these lines didn't care about the result. One could argue that people not caring about written documentation isn't anything new, but in the past, these documentations also had little text. So they were easier to digest. Now, we get great walls of text that are hard to read. I cannot say that I like that.
- alasano 1mo agoNot running code from someone who has so little self awareness that they publish documentation like this tbh. Doesn't matter if it's open source.
- embedding-shape 1mo agoWhat sucks is that clearly the author has prompted the model somehow to generate this text, and this prompt probably contains the actual meat that the model just "expanded on" while adding it's own fluff, and if the author just shared the actual verbatim prompt instead, the documentation would be 90% shorter but also 200% more "informative per character used". Just share the prompt you used, regardless of how low quality or bad it is, rather than this word spaghetti of 100s of words saying basically nothing, such a waste.
- sceptic123 1mo agoThat isn't going to be very helpful is it? > can you build a website to promote the app > can you add a page showing off the winamp mode
- jeltz 1mo agoStill more useful than what exists now.
- km144 1mo ago
- andrepd 1mo agoSlop code is already hard to tolerate, but any hint of slop in text will immediately make me chuck it into the bin / close the tab, no exceptions. My lifetime is finite, I'm sure as fuck not gonna spend time reading something that a person could not even be arsed to write themselves. I'm only annoyed that it takes sometimes a few seconds, sometimes a few minutes, to detect that I'm actually not reading a person's thoughts but only a machine simulacrum of such. I highly recommend anybody to take up a similar rule, in any context. Slop in a website? Close. Slop in an email? Bin. Slop in a code comment? Skip.
- lambdaone 1mo agoLLMs seem to have been fine-tuned to use metaphors, presumably because they read like vivid creative writing. The over-use of metaphor in LLM-produced text is exhausting.
- exitb 1mo agoUncanny valley. LLMs are great at producing text that reads almost right.
- deadlast2 1mo agoThere is a tribe of people who carve bots out of trees using their hands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_canoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugout_canoe. It stupid to waste time doing something a computer can do reasonably well. IMO
- psd1 1mo agoIcymi, "carving bots out of trees" is a wonderful and apposite autocorrect. There's layers to this thing, man!
- wartywhoa23 1mo agoGenerally speaking, it's carving bots out of the environment, trees included, for sure.
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- earcar 1mo agoAuthor here. Yes, the code is generated. Yes, the docs are generated. I agree LLM copy is annoying and will rewrite them myself. But I built this for myself out of frustration with the official client, and I use it every day, so every bug I find is fixed immediately. I also care about bugs and PRs from other people, as you can see the amount that have been closed on the repo. The only reason I would stop maintaining this is if Spotify kills it. I also wouldn't call this vibe coded either. Human directed and LLM generated is fairer. It's been an intense 5 days with tons of design decisions and testing on 3 platforms. I think we need a new vocabulary to distinguish it from "author doesn't care". I do.
- cirelli94 1mo agoI would use the phrase "Responsible Use of Generative AI", from https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte
- bramhaag 1mo agoI wouldn't. > The Debian Project nevertheless expects that all contributions submitted to Debian, regardless of how and with which tools they were produced, satisfy the same standards of quality, correctness, maintainability, and legal compliance. Slop text on the homepage does not scream "quality" to me. The code is worse, somehow. Endless paragraphs of comments that say nothing: https://github.com/crmne/fastpotify/blob/d9aafbf8e0b0c4d2da3ad3060921a723e92c2e17/src/limiter.rs https://github.com/crmne/fastpotify/blob/d9aafbf8e0b0c4d2da3...
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- ahartmetz 1mo ago/// Rule: every block leaves exactly as long as it arrived, whatever /// is being held back, or the output would run short. Uhm yeah, that is "literally what" territory.
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- PatronBernard 1mo agoHaving used Claude a lot for the past four months, I get exhausted from its style. Every sentence has been buffed and polished and enhanced and it never just plainly says a thing. It's as if you have to eat every meal with every possible flavor enhancer in existence. At one point I will totally lose it if it mentions "smoke test" one more time. It is also totally not what I want for docstrings in code or Powerpoint drafts, where consistency in language is critical.
- k3liutZu 1mo agoHave a bit of food dropped into the MSG container. Now eat the whole container
- Sharlin 1mo agoLike I said in another thread, everything Claude (Code) writes sounds like it’s congratulating itself of how smart it is. While not actually being that smart.
- jeltz 1mo agoIt writes like me when I was 14 and thought I was very smart.
- km144 1mo agoI believe AI technical prose peaked with Opus 4.6. I still use it (mostly for that purpose) and I think it's legitimately great. I'm hoping they are able to reverse the trends that benchmaxxing and RLAIF have wrought on Claude's non-code output with the future models.
- unshavedyak 1mo agoNow that the public anger is growing i really hope Anthropics next models seriously address this. Or for that matter, i hope everyone (OpenAI/etc) starts focusing on this too. Intelligence is important but it feels as if the LLM is only capable of conveying information while drenching it in vomit.
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- bko 1mo ago> I feel like if you can’t be bothered to write the code, at least document it yourself and write the marketing copy so I know you understand the product. Do you not understand it? This person doesn't owe you any work. He's providing a product for free and this is a reasonable enough description of the product. > Did the LLM generate some amazing rm -rf somewhere, or another blunder that wrecks data I might care about? I'm pretty sure at this point hand-crafted code is more likely to contain security bugs. The mythical "rm -rf" random LLM insertion is not a real threat. Every time I see stories about this kind of issue, it's almost always preceded by basically prompt poisoning.
- embedding-shape 1mo ago> The mythical "rm -rf" random LLM insertion is not a real threat. Every time I see stories about this kind of issue, it's almost always preceded by basically prompt poisoning. It is real, typically happening when dumber models (haven't personally seen any of the SOTA ones on reasonable thinking/reasoning level do this) try to clean up stuff via bash and forget to assign a variable. Things like "rm -rf sessions/$id" without double-checking $id is actually defined, would do "rm -rf sessions/" and remove the entire directory. Add in more variables in a path like "rm -rf $HOME/projects/$user/$repo/$tmpdir" and the dumb models people think they can use for local coding, promptly removes a lot more than expected. Not sure how people aren't already running these agents in an environment/sandbox where stuff like this wouldn't matter, locally or not, but some LLMs do truly accidentally delete stuff for people, without "prompt poisoning", I had it happen myself while testing Qwen3.8-27B (BF16) locally just a week or two ago, exactly as described above.
- maxibenner 1mo agoJust recently, Opus 4.8 almost deleted a bunch of important files (I caught the issue before) because it failed to consider that two-way-sync would delete files from my NAS if deleted locally.
- cityoften 1mo agoFable has done similar for me because it assumed intent that I wanted permanent deletion after moving folders. The bash script it wrote failed to copy the files and then deleted the originals. Not catastrophic in my case though
- jollyllama 1mo ago> class BuffaloBill
- threethirtytwo 1mo agoYour comment has too much intensity as well. Honestly it too looks like slop. I agree with what you said, but nevertheless your writing is likely AI generated here, it’s very obvious.
- demibabs 1mo agoDid the landing page text get updated? Didn’t click as ai generated to me.