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by foltik 74 days ago
So... a vibe slop index to keep track of all the vibe slop apps?

The cherry on top: it’s completely broken! Enable the Context Awareness filter, the list shrinks. Now enable the Auto-pasting filter, the list grows back.

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I wouldn't call it completely broken; Pressing buttons still does something, it looks like an OR filter instead of an AND. It should be updated to be an AND filter as that's more intuitive.
If you squint, it looks kinda maybe superficially useful? But if you actually critically look at it, it makes no sense.

The categories are clearly LLM generated from the GhostPepper codebase, with vague low level descriptions and links to code. Most categories apply to every listed project.

The UI is the same tiny bit of LLM generated information displayed five different confusing ways. Like seriously, click on a project and you first see a bunch of haphazard feature cards, then a bunch of “feature ... active” rows. Looks fancy, but actually just noise. Textbook slop.

Better would be a simple awesome-style markdown page, with a feature matrix having categories and descriptions curated by a human that actually understands and cares about the domain.

Sorry if this is harsh, but passing off LLM output as “curation” is particularly insulting to me.

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hahah. It's slop all the way down.