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by champagnepapi 2 days ago
I’m curious to know if this was architected/designed by an actual human or is this just AI slop?

These days I am very very cautious about the quality of packages. I’ve become a lot more reluctant/hesitant (which is not to say prior I was in favor of just adding packages left and right). I was still conservative, but these days I’ve become much much more conservative when it comes to adding a package to a production system.

I will review this later and report back for the community

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From their Agent.md:

"Go port of Vercel's AI SDK (github.com/grafana/ai-sdk), providing streaming LLM orchestration wire-compatible with @ai-sdk/react"

What is not written by AI nowadays..? Unless the library has strict no AI policy like Zig, I don't see AI going away.. but I would love to learn how you audit a huge AI written codebase atp?

Btw, the emdash in the repo description is a giveaway too.

There's a big difference between "written by AI" and a piece of software being designed / architected by a person or a person in-conjunction with AI.
The AI SDK being ported was first released in 2023, so it was almost certainly designed/architected by a person. "Vibe coding" wasn't a thing until 2025.

However, that person worked for Vercel, so be aware that the design is apt to be questionable. Another comment has already pointed out some of the core design flaws, as is emblematic of everything that comes out of Vecel.

But you may find it useful if you have to integrate into that ecosystem.

I personally wouldn't classify it as slop from my own very quick glance of the code (who reads the code these days, amirite?) - seems pretty reasonable. Someone already mentioned that in AGENTS.md it is stated that this is a port, so that answers the design question. Out of interest, what is your definition of AI slop?