Post #2508269

2026-05-14 02:15 UTC

Apparently someone already wrote a whole production Swift wrapper for the AppleCVA face tracking framework I discovered. I&#39;m pretty sure it was vibe coded. This sucks. I&#39;m doing this both to help people and to teach myself Swift and macOS programming. What&#39;s the point now? I spent a whole day reverse engineering Apple binaries to work out the API and required input data. I didn&#39;t post the API header or docs but I did post logs with a lot of the required info. Enough for a slop machine to figure it out I guess. This is really demoralizing. I was planning to stream this weekend to work on all this. Now I don&#39;t really feel like it any more. I guess you can&#39;t even post reverse engineering logs now without risking people slopping their way ahead of you.

Replies (6)

@lina@vt.social 2026-05-14 02:26

The slop machine even hard coded the exact same camera matrix from my example dumps, down to the fp64 rounding error (400 is actually a result of a calculation but the slop machine isn't smart enough to guess what it is). (Also the math here is wrong, the slop version's entire take on resolutions and aspect ratios is nonsense)

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@yon@sakurajima.moe 2026-05-14 02:58

@lina@vt.social You know how a lot of open source licensed code is completely unmaintained? With a small tiny “elite” being maintained. My prediction is that LLM generated code open source code isn’t going to be maintained. There’s no fire nor passion there. I think what you did is still worth while, and I think whatever you do is more worth while and more likely to amount to something beyond a proof of concept (which one time generated things really are).

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@rifter@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 04:31

@lina@vt.social may they suffer the burden of expectations they cannot meet and infinite bugs 🙏

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@ddg@techhub.social 2026-05-14 06:15

@lina@vt.social Between the massive amounts of unmaintainable code being generated, junior devs not having the jobs that would give them the much needed experience, and the moral and financial hit on so much open-source software, AI's going to set us back years in the mid/long term.

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@thekhanj@mastodon.social 2026-05-14 07:24

@lina@vt.social Aww, that must feel so bad🥲 How about this, rest up, clear your mind, and get back to it without thinking about their version. We still wanna see yours🙇‍♂️

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@AFRO@social.treehouse.systems 2026-05-14 19:37

I very much value the love and passion that you put into your projects. There are people who can see what you put into your work and value how and when it's expressed. I hope you still stream this weekend.

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