Can’t escape AI slop projects from meat proxies man. Every single open source project smells like Claude Code recently. Sad times.
It does make me sad that Rust is getting so strongly associated with slop. Personally I find it a really fun language to actually program in. The language being expression-based is actually quite handy, and is a concept I wish existed in other languages too. But it is also unfortunately the most sensible language for vibe-coding too because of the performance and guardrails.
Yeah well you can thank rust tools that are replacing coreutils and somehow finding their way as defaults. Eza is a prime example. Oh pretty icons but you can’t handle ls -larth, so glad you are in rust though. Rust has had a reputation before the slop.
Eza isn’t a reimplementation… it’s its own program. The name of the binary is also
ezanotls. What OS are you using that uses eza instead of ls? I have both installed and havelsaliased toezabecause I find the coloured output to be easier to read (much like syntax-highlighted code is easier to read), but I’ve never seen eza pre-installed on a system, not does it conflict with ls. Package managers let you install both. They’re different programs.you’re not gonna get a reply to these questions, because they installed eza themself and also, separately, heard about ubuntu adopting the uutils reimplementations of coreutils, which of course does not include eza.
CachyOS aliases ls to eza in fish, which is the default shell there. I love fish but still think it’s a bit weird to use it as default.
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The guardrails are helpful for humans as well. Its not mindless - its the difference between an obvious compiler error and a silent use after free that becomes a security vulnerability.
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I for one grasp C and work with it, no big deal. AI does it well too and is probably going to eat the fun-of-coding out of my job. That’s sad to me but, it’s not useless. For now there’s a lot of stuff we didn’t maintain like docs and unit tests and thanks to ai it’s kept up to date now, not that it’s very important but we strive at just doing more, not being less workers.
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And I can’t decide if Cargo or the Python interpreter is the bigger smart ass.
I’d hate Rust, but Lunduke hates Rust because trans people write in Rust, so I like Rust just to piss off Lunduke’s homophobic ass
I don’t know why people would hate rust. It is a fast, memory safe language. There is nothing wrong with it in itself. Its just that the fact it is significantly easier catch mistakes as it usually won’t compile if there is a problem, which makes it good for AI to use as it is harder to screw up long term.
I don’t hate Rust, but I do get annoyed by and suspicious of the evangelism for it I often see. This is by no means unique to Rust but it does seem to be seeing a very aggressive push even into trying to fix/replace tried and tested things that aren’t broken. It has that feeling of aggressively taking everything over.
Lunduke just hates it because he thinks it’s “woke”
Kids these days with their woke (checks notes) programming languages.
Those damn woke ipad kids with their programming languages and being who they are and being unashamed of being gay, how could you possibly let them be themselves?
before anyone misconstrues i’m literally gay and making fun of Lunduke
The hate is at least partly because there is and has always been a holy war over programming languages. Your choice of programming language greatly affects me. The software you write in language A (usually) can’t interoperate well with the software I write in language B. You end up with duplication of effort and many implementations of a thing, one for each language, usually more than one, with differences between them that makes things complicated. You have more choices when there are more languages, adding complexity to the making of software. I would say Rust gets the brunt of the hate because it’s new, but in 2026 that’s not really true anymore.
Fair
it’s funny to see people like him get butthurt about LGBTQ+ people existing
Don’t forget Claude in the contributor list!
Surprisingly not a red flag, it can be used to sabotage potential sloppers.
This is one of the cases where the actual thing is amazing but the fandom for it is insufferable.
There is nothing wrong with Rust. It’s incredible. I’ve been writing code with it for years.
I’ve been writing it for a month, already released 5 projects. ; )
I don’t understand why people do that when writing rust by yourself is so much fun!
Fun?
Blink twice if you’re in danger
A month!? A lot of these fuckers pop up just over the weekend, and then are never heard from again.
Vibe coded garbage.
I once considered it a privilege to be able to program in rust. Even before, rust code can be quite terse
With LLMs now, I see code that gives my brain an anneurism and programming anti patterns that I didn’t know existed
Although I understand why LLMs prefer rust safety guarantees that make it difficult to shoot itself on the foot
“I built”
It’s a stone, Luigi. You didn’t make it
The last one is the only part that matches the meme.
It’s way worse when they don’t feel like they have to disclose that it’s slop.
Yep, and it makes it harder to be motivated to actually work on OSS when your work can just be copied and sloppified into 10 other clones the next day
I feel the opposite. I don’t care if you clone my code, I have my personal copy, just like there are many Lemmy instances.
I’m tired of getting useful programs rugpulled on me.
It is less of a marketing for Rust rather giving it a new name: Slop Language.
Not because it is slop, it is great but the way people are using it is not very great
I really don’t care if someone wants to create a tool using an LLM. However, it’s hard to feel good about starting to use an application that has been vibe coded in the last month since I doubt that the author will actually maintain their work. If something works I don’t particularly care about the details of how it was made, but I do care about whether or not the tool will even exist in the near future. There’s no point in adopting a new application or tool if it’s going to just be immediately abandoned.
How is someone using ai to code a meat proxy? The person guiding the AI is the one with the idea?
I thought meat proxy is someone that uses AI to think , asking it everything and then just regurgitating that instead of coming up with their own thoughts or ideas.
How is someone using chef to cook a pizza a customer? The person guiding the chef is the one with the idea?
I think a more appropriate analogy would be using a laser cutter to cut pieces of wood from a design you came up with. You used a tool to make something, without the tool you would not have the knowledge to make all the precise cuts by hand.
Your analogy is comparing ai to a human, when it should be considered as a tool.
Hold on, the AI is generating my response to you so I don’t have to think for myself.
Not sure that’s a good analogy…
You’re right, it’s a great analogy. I fucking nailed it because I’m awesome.
Seeing slopsayers and rust aficionados fight in the comments is like coming across a baron and revenant going at it in melee.
Hell yeah.
