A lot of my personal time, and a few others that I know, is being spent either updating, replicating or simulating the classic BBS experience today... while not really simulating the Modem itself.. trying to get the way a certain terminal looked in the old days is a bit of arcane knowledge combined with the time to make it work.
AI does a pretty good job of a lot of it... I've mostly been using Rust for my target language, the biggest parts so far in terms of rework/retries has been getting the "experience" how I want it, which isn't really a 1:1 of the classic experience, but updated. Like mouse scrolling for scrollback controls, etc.
There's also been a lot of activities in enhancing the BBS software that remains today (Synchronet, Enigma, Mystic and a MajorBBS remake) along with continued classics and some door games.
True. And it has the same safety implications as in software and security but more obvious since the slop creeps it's way into the physical world: One of my main hobbies is drones. Lately less flying cause of a long track record of crap weather every weekend for like 6 months so I'm more on the building side of things. I would not trust a slop machine to design and build something that weights 4 kilos, carrying a highly flammable lithium(ion or polymer) battery and fly it in a remote field even. Off the top of my head, I can think of 200 ways this could go wrong. And most people with a functioning brain that have watched the news will agree with me. The line between "Claude sloppus is so good man, look at this awesome thing it did" and "Lost control of the drone, it flew into an airfield and crashed into the engine of a plane taking off" is incredibly thin. What pisses me off is that if this happens, regulations will hit those of us that know what they are doing and will make sure this never happens, and not the geniuses who think slop is a viable solution for everything. Same story with the never ending leaks and supply chain attacks which are a direct consequence of sloppers.
AI does a pretty good job of a lot of it... I've mostly been using Rust for my target language, the biggest parts so far in terms of rework/retries has been getting the "experience" how I want it, which isn't really a 1:1 of the classic experience, but updated. Like mouse scrolling for scrollback controls, etc.
There's also been a lot of activities in enhancing the BBS software that remains today (Synchronet, Enigma, Mystic and a MajorBBS remake) along with continued classics and some door games.