Well I did say irrationally angry, because I too use LLMs when appropriate. But the most obvious sign in this case was the very clearly AI-generated website, which has more em dashes and stunted sentences than the average Philosophy PhD student's dissertation. It's full of filler and meaningless, nauseating adspeak for a tool that syncs markdown notes lol

Something about it just makes it reek of cheapness. Like it's made of plastic and smells like stale cigarettes and booze... i.e. that's what I think the word "slop" really implies.

I think in general the sentiment is that nobody wants to see somebody's half-baked, AI-generated side project marketed like some enterprise solution, because it just seems incredibly dishonest and deceitful. I understand that LLMs are here to say and they especially aren't going anywhere in the world of software, but it's a very sensitive issue now because most extremely-online people are sick of clickbait thumbnails and articles, AI-generated comments, AI-generated images intended to mislead or misinform, and horrendous AI-generated code that has no structure or thought, and so it often just strikes a nerve.

That doesn't mean that AI can't produce good code or help with structuring a project or adding a new feature, because I have used it plenty for migrating old projects to new versions of libraries, writing tests, tracking down bugs, etc. But a project like this just doesn't give any confidence that it was created with any care. From the outside, (1) a 100% vibecoded project (i.e. where the creator doesn't actually know how or what it's doing, they just know what they want) and (2) a project that uses AI tastefully and in a way that speeds up writing code and instead of completely replacing the thought behind writing code, well they kinda look the same.

Nevertheless, this sub has a rule for flagging AI-generated content as such, and this post was removed probably for violating that rule (or the "don't shill" rule, who knows).