Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release
2026-07-08 02:16 UTC
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@eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2026-07-08 03:01
Hardly an issue with generated code. You could say the same about projects before LLMs were widely used for code generation: “most projects are abandoned within months of release”. The difference now is the scale and how some people feel about it.
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@Melobol@lemmy.ml 2026-07-08 03:12
I would say that the free tiers of those coding tools got cut back so much, that some of those slop coded stuff wouldn’t keep doing it any more. Claude is on a 5 hr timer, and you get very few responses. Qeen Code was free for a second, that was nice. Speaking of my own slop coded project viewpoint.
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@rimu@piefed.social 2026-07-08 02:18
I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, wrote a few issues describing some showstopping 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.
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@hperrin@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 03:35
Even if they weren’t abandoned, you shouldn’t use them.
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@i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 04:09
On the flip side, if you’re vibe coding an app you should seriously consider whether it’s something you want to open source or make available publicly. There’s a social contract that comes with that. I have 2 self hosted slop apps I build and maintain myself. I think people would genuinely get great use out of them. …but then I’m inviting critiques and feature requests and am roped into supporting them so it’s not just a big pile of shit that wastes everyone’s time. And I don’t want to spend my limited free time making common sense improvements to improve it for others. I want to write a lazy Claude prompt with insufficient context, get it barely doing what I need, and then spend the rest of my time eating crayons and similar pastimes.
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@PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 04:50
I’m generally anti-ai but this is kind of exactly what vibe coding is for. Someone has a problem right now and there is no tool to fix their problem how they want it fixed, so they throw some shit together for personal use and maybe someone else can use it if they want idgaf. Why would they maintain that? It does what they need it to, when they need it. Usually these tools are very basic.
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@liquidlamp@hachyderm.io 2026-07-08 02:27
@rimu@piefed.social this just seems like human nature in a nutshell. Easy come, easy go. If something had almost no impact on your life, didn't require you to commit and learn, then what value does it have to you? Once you get past the gambling like hit of dopamine that is "wow it worked!?" from the code generator, there is no impact to you, no skin in the game. You at most want another hit, which each new part of the project will just give less and less as the scope gets smaller and the builds harder to reach.
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@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2026-07-08 05:24
As always the social infrastructure (community, user base) is much more important for the success and use value of a piece of software than the exact technology used to make it (lang, framework, helper tools).
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@HackThePlanet@lemmy.ml 2026-07-08 06:35
We went from “everyone will know how to code in the future” to “no one know will know how to code” pretty quickly
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@M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2026-07-08 07:05
Vaporware is never not a thing.