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I don't even want to put 'my' code or apps out into the wild anymore. I've built a a few things I think are useful and I'm using myself but I'm afraid it'll just get called slop or my only users will be bots. What's the point. So I don't get the joy out of sharing it nor the joy of the achievement. But I've widdled down what I thought was an endless backlog of features to nearly zero, I guess that's something.

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Github's weekly Top Trending repos list is depressing. Slop on top of slop, many doing the exact same thing as each other with so much low-quality content it's challenging to read through and compare similar repos.

If it's code built by an LLM it's almost inherently uninteresting in that 'anyone' can also generate the same slop. Beyond the initial novelty the 'achievement' really doesn't stretch that far.

Your slop, my slop, their slop it's all 'slop' and no one can really care about slop. The novelty is wearing thin fast

Of course not, this makes no sense. It's the opposite, most of LLM generated apps are indeed uninteresting, yet it's not inherent at all. Most photos, most drawings, most human-written articles are uninteresting and have been so since forever. Nothing about that is inherent. And in the exact same manner, no, others can't generate the same thing. They physically can, but that has never been a barrier.

If I make uninteresting art, it's not because I physically lack the ability to use my hands in a manner that would create interesting art. It's because I can't come up with the ideas, and lack the taste, to produce interesting art.

I think you missed my point I'm not denying the code does not produce a function of effect. The code however is uninteresting because almost anyone can also generate it.

I'm interested in the source code to Quake but not in the source code to an LLM generated Quake equivalent, I love to hear about the Fast Inverse Square Root formula in Quake that Id software wrote but I'm unmoved by the generated LLM version.

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