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Well, apparently Deno is also a slop now: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/16766#issuecomment-4...

Deno's LLM contributions have been smaller in scope, so they're more likely to be reviewed by a human, and the codebase remains understood by its contributors. Can the same be said of Bun, which switched to an entirely different language in a single, million-line PR?[0]

[0]: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30412

Since when small vibe coded slop became the norm? Because there exists bigger vibe coded slop, it's no justification to have a smaller vibe coded slop.

One shotting slop is very different from iterating back and forth with an AI. Also, most of the AI work that's being done has been getting node compatibility tests passing with the help of comparing that to the Node.js code, which is something an LLM is very good at.

> One shotting slop is very different from iterating back and forth with an AI.

Bun is also iterating back and forth with AI. The rewrite only got popular because of bigger scope. The bigger the scope is, the more bugs there are.

> getting node compatibility tests passing

So does Bun.

> which is something an LLM is very good at.

Doesn't matter. The code those LLMs operate on is simple enough that any middle software engineer can do.

Using AI to write code is not necessarily vibecoding nor slop.

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