I do not get slop vibes from this project at all. Everything looks intentional. There are no bizarre UI elements that were hallucinated into existence. It looks like everything you see was intended to be there.
The website doesn't give the impression of slop either.
This appears to be the "taste" we all have been saying humans are needed for.
This is the vibe I'm getting from this project and an example of how AI can be used in a "proper" way - intentional and supervised by someone who knows their sh*t. "Slop" seems to have turned into a generic way to describe anything that comes out of an LLM these days. There is quite a pronounced border between "make me an app" and specific, technical instructions and constraints resulting in decent output. The parts where two different runs to recreate a piece or software result in a different take are quite fascinating and not unlike me finding a PoC I once wrote in a text file vs. me doing it again months later and it being architecturally completely different. I'm generally against the results of AI use in stupid hands, but this isn't it.
Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude?
Not every project that uses AI is immediately "AI slop".
This is a hobby project. I rely on AI to speed up the work (including the writing and maintenance of the webpage and the markdown files you see here). If you spot a mistake, you're welcome to contribute a fix in the form of a PR.
The author is inviting your hand written assembly skills to help him reduce the "slop"
I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool.
I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or weeks that previously could have been months. Projects that don't really have much value in terms of money but are just nice to have kind of things.
This project is a great example of this.
It does come back to that question though of who will pay for the code generation but that is something for someone else.
I'm more impressed by this than AI-generated images; a few tiny imperfections in the latter are not a big deal, and even humans often make mistakes with little effect, but code has a far higher bar of correctness to meet. The fact that AI can even generate working real-mode 16-bit code reasonably well and not turn into Electron-levels of inefficiency was most surprising.
Exactly this! Recently I saw a project that is heavily AI assisted to port Doom to the Neo Geo. That is hardware that works in a totally opposite fashion to how Doom runs. It is a 12Mhz 68K chip with no frame buffer. And yet, they are making it work and with surprising performance.
Considering how little open Neo Geo code is probably out there to train on, that these models can build to this is very impressive.
Eh, wait. I remember the NeoGeo having a m68k CPU's AND some kind of VPU/PPU a la NES but for 16 bit machines, a 24 bit one. Far more powerful than an Amiga or a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in the US).
Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude?
Just to make it correctly: Author isn't writing code with Claude. Claude is writing code for the Author. Nothing wrong with that. But that's how it is.
It was originally coined to mean low-quality material that was obviously generated by AI, like pictures of humans with distorted features and the wrong number of fingers.
But a whole bunch of people have decided that anything generated by AI is "slop", regardless of quality.
It's absolutely obnoxious, especially when people label things as "slop" when AI was merely used for brainstorming and the final product does not contain any AI-generated material at all.
I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff.
It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freely. Some times justified, other times just folks trying to grab some power over others.
FWIW "slop" seems to have become a more general slang nowadays, i see people use it on Discord and Twitch to describe all sorts of stuff often unrelated to AI.
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Most likely because of AI slop.
I do not get slop vibes from this project at all. Everything looks intentional. There are no bizarre UI elements that were hallucinated into existence. It looks like everything you see was intended to be there.
The website doesn't give the impression of slop either.
This appears to be the "taste" we all have been saying humans are needed for.
This is the vibe I'm getting from this project and an example of how AI can be used in a "proper" way - intentional and supervised by someone who knows their sh*t. "Slop" seems to have turned into a generic way to describe anything that comes out of an LLM these days. There is quite a pronounced border between "make me an app" and specific, technical instructions and constraints resulting in decent output. The parts where two different runs to recreate a piece or software result in a different take are quite fascinating and not unlike me finding a PoC I once wrote in a text file vs. me doing it again months later and it being architecturally completely different. I'm generally against the results of AI use in stupid hands, but this isn't it.
Why do you think it is "AI slop"? Isn't the author allowed to write code with Claude?
Not every project that uses AI is immediately "AI slop".
The author is inviting your hand written assembly skills to help him reduce the "slop"
I'm not to most positive about AI generated stuff, especially in terms of text and images. But with code, it is a neat tool.
I think it is especially cool in building stuff to retro specs. It has allowed many to do stuff in days or weeks that previously could have been months. Projects that don't really have much value in terms of money but are just nice to have kind of things.
This project is a great example of this.
It does come back to that question though of who will pay for the code generation but that is something for someone else.
I'm more impressed by this than AI-generated images; a few tiny imperfections in the latter are not a big deal, and even humans often make mistakes with little effect, but code has a far higher bar of correctness to meet. The fact that AI can even generate working real-mode 16-bit code reasonably well and not turn into Electron-levels of inefficiency was most surprising.
Exactly this! Recently I saw a project that is heavily AI assisted to port Doom to the Neo Geo. That is hardware that works in a totally opposite fashion to how Doom runs. It is a 12Mhz 68K chip with no frame buffer. And yet, they are making it work and with surprising performance.
Considering how little open Neo Geo code is probably out there to train on, that these models can build to this is very impressive.
Eh, wait. I remember the NeoGeo having a m68k CPU's AND some kind of VPU/PPU a la NES but for 16 bit machines, a 24 bit one. Far more powerful than an Amiga or a Sega Megadrive (Genesis in the US).
Just to make it correctly: Author isn't writing code with Claude. Claude is writing code for the Author. Nothing wrong with that. But that's how it is.
OP wasn't talking about code but aesthetics.
The term "AI slop" has lost all meaning.
It was originally coined to mean low-quality material that was obviously generated by AI, like pictures of humans with distorted features and the wrong number of fingers.
But a whole bunch of people have decided that anything generated by AI is "slop", regardless of quality.
It's absolutely obnoxious, especially when people label things as "slop" when AI was merely used for brainstorming and the final product does not contain any AI-generated material at all.
I think a big part of the 'slop' term should be associated with people who use it to either deceive others or just flood a place with low quality stuff.
It is a matter of opinion but many brandish the term around a little to freely. Some times justified, other times just folks trying to grab some power over others.
FWIW "slop" seems to have become a more general slang nowadays, i see people use it on Discord and Twitch to describe all sorts of stuff often unrelated to AI.
“I really liked this until I found out it was AI slop.”
That one really grinds my gears.
Probably because the web page is. It is almost unreadable because of the style.
You are the only person on this thread that answered my question and gave a clear reason.