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Posted by rbanffy 4 hours ago

Gloomberb(gloom.sh)
278 points | 145 commentspage 2
sigmonsays 2 hours ago||
This post / OP really needs to say if it's AI SLOP or not and to what extent. This looks like AI slop.
jeffbee 2 hours ago|
Any "TUI" you've seen in the past few years is 100% vide-coded slop.
dpmartinez 1 hour ago||
Curious what you consider those that aren't 100% 'slop', aside from the common ones.

Because I'm starting to see the word 'slop' as a synonym for:

"This person may or may not have used AI to build software and I don't like it"

jeffbee 1 hour ago||
Slop is slop when the author could not have done it without the AI.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan#:~:text=%E2%80...

dpmartinez 15 minutes ago||
This doesn't answer my question about what you consider isn't a slop TUI though.

> Slop is slop when the author could not have done it without the AI.

Thinking about Vim (1.) and Linux's adoption of AI, are they considered slop because they adopted AI because the contributors couldn't have done a PR / patch without AI?

(1.) https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#using...

TZubiri 4 hours ago||
What I pressume is the text for "Gloomberg" in the Hero header looks very fucked up

https://imgur.com/a/ssiKckF

Hopefully it's not intentional

nhinck2 4 hours ago||
How much intent can you ascribe to any of this?
KomoD 3 hours ago|||
Yeah, looks totally broken on my machine too.
cwnyth 3 hours ago|||
Looks fine on my end (Firefox).
timcobb 3 hours ago|||
what platform is that? looks fine on mine
TZubiri 2 hours ago||
MS Edge, which is Chromium (Blink?) Based
8note 4 hours ago|||
Gloom Harder?
ghjv 3 hours ago|||
looks fine on my machine
u8 4 hours ago||
How well do you think their terminal works if they couldn't even spend the time to clean up their vibe coded website?
dpmartinez 3 hours ago|||
> How well do you think their terminal works if they couldn't even spend the time to clean up their vibe coded website?

Your website is literally down.

https://i.postimg.cc/YCdkwZZq/image.png

And I don't think their website is that bad.

KomoD 3 hours ago||
> And I don't think their website is that bad.

The download button doesn't even work properly.

Clicking download in the top right gives me a .dmg, the other download button in the hero gives me the .exe, the one in the footer gives me a .dmg

Docs give me a 404, blog is empty

dpmartinez 3 hours ago||
> The download button doesn't even work properly. Clicking download in the top right gives me a .dmg, the other download button in the hero gives me the .exe, the one in the footer gives me a .dmg

I mean, it works for me?

The site is clearly not ready and maybe they didn't expect people to find it, but that doesn't mean the site is bad.

It is just a work in progress.

I'm not even interested in the site anyway the software and the source interests me more.

https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb

KomoD 3 hours ago||
> I mean, it works for me?

Doesn't invalidate my experience.

> and maybe they didn't expect people to find it

What do you mean? It's linked on the Github repo.

> but that doesn't mean the site is bad.

I think a site that doesn't work properly is a bad one. That's just my opinion.

dpmartinez 2 hours ago||
> What do you mean? It's linked on the Github repo...I think a site that doesn't work properly is a bad one. That's just my opinion.

I mean isn't this the point of open source?

You can fork the repo and fix the problem instead of complaining?

echoangle 1 hour ago|||
You can still give constructive criticism of an open source project though, right?
dpmartinez 1 hour ago||
Never said you can't.

You can fix it though or open an issue.

TZubiri 1 hour ago|||
So, volunteer time for free for someone else?

>I mean isn't this the point of open source?

Only if you just found what open source is.

In actuality, successful open source projects recruit developers by providing value to them. If there's a failure before you even install the product, there's 0 reason for someone to start contributing right away, why not start their own project at that point? Contributing 1 to something that has 0 value is a donation in exchange for nothing, not how Open Source usually works.

dpmartinez 1 hour ago||
> So, volunteer time for free for someone else?

Yes.

You know the project is OSS, you found the problem, you can fix it or open and issue instead of complaining to me about it.

Problem solved.

That benefits everyone rather than forking a project and starting all over again and wasting effort.

I cannot reproduce the problem, so I can't fix it.

But since you're complaining about it and you have the right skills, you can!

TZubiri 2 hours ago|||
Exactly, our time is limited, so if we are to evaluate a product, we will take any excuse possible to veto a vendor.

If you fail at a webpage in 2026, you have no chance at doing anything complex or innovative.

mistercheph 1 hour ago||
total slop, who cares?
gymbeaux 3 hours ago||
When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.
MyHonestOpinon 2 hours ago||
It is becoming very hard not to use an LLM. I have been working on a project all this year. I started doing everything by hand, and I am using LLMs a little bit more every day. I suppose we want to use projects that were crafted with care, whether or not LLMs were used. But it is not easy to figure that out. It reminds me. 30 years ago, before code formatters were popular, you could tell good code just by looking at how carefully formatted it was.
m0k167eh 58 minutes ago|||
and you think Bloomberg engineers dont use AI heavily?
janlukacs 2 hours ago|||
same and for some reason people are downvoting. why would we use vibecoded stuff with sensitive information?
dewey 1 hour ago||
What’s sensitive about displaying public information in pretty graphs?
ahahs 3 hours ago||
my first thoughts too.
RetroTechie 3 hours ago|
gloom.sh/docs - 404: This page could not be found.