I knew the second Eric posted about releasing Slug to the public domain we'd get 100s of "OpenSlug" slopped-up. Will be interesting to see which implementation will win or if Slug will keep being a thing.
Tbf, the Github repo doesn't look particularly 'sloppy' to me, more like some mild AI assistance. There's several months of fairly regular looking git history, a couple of commits with an LLM disclaimer for python bindings, and two llm-context files.
Yeah, I (author) regularly use AI (anyone who doesn't is ... well, they're not seeing the same reality I am, anyways :)), but I don't just "turn it loose." It reviews my initial passes, catches stupid mistakes I make, and often has good advice about "Hey, don't overengineer this", although I _do_ have to regularly reign it in from other complete nonsense (which kind of makes me happy, because it means, you know, I still have a job). For slughorn, it mostly did some of the C++ tests, almost all of the pytest coverage, the pybind docstrings, and the GLFW example (since I do 99% of my own testing with OSG until I finish there and move on to Vulkan).
Slughorn is coded by hard-working humans. Sure, we use LLM tools for some investigation and development, but this is not an AI slop project. It's been in the works steadily since not long after Eric announced the patent release, grinding through improvements with every hour of the day we can dedicate to it.
Every important line of code here was written, tested and is understood by Cubicool, the lead programmer (there are some LLM-generated ancillary parts of the codebase, and I think git shows those).
I must apologize, this really came across as an accusation. I meant to say that, upon his announcement, I imagined there would be many 1-weekend slop clones. I have not looked at slughorn, but I really think this is cool, and I appreciate competent people working on cool problems. I'll keep an eye on this! Will be more careful with how I express myself, sorry! :)
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Slughorn is coded by hard-working humans. Sure, we use LLM tools for some investigation and development, but this is not an AI slop project. It's been in the works steadily since not long after Eric announced the patent release, grinding through improvements with every hour of the day we can dedicate to it.
Every important line of code here was written, tested and is understood by Cubicool, the lead programmer (there are some LLM-generated ancillary parts of the codebase, and I think git shows those).
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