Everybody else can do this now themselves, and they get a tool that's more personalized to their tastes. And why have a readme at all when it's just LLM mumbo-jumbo - that sort of mumbo jumbo is written for LLMs to consume, not humans.
In practice, well.
Awesome!
I think these repo owners should be required to film themselves reading out their Claudemade readmes with a straight face.
Every honest caveat. Every seam. Every "Frames lie, so the walk prunes hard".
How many slop ideas have come to the front page, never to be heard from again because the execution isn’t actually any good? I’m guessing most of them.
This just means ReadMe’s are less important now. I just have my terminal agent dig into the code and tell me what features are there. If the app is actually useful.
Even before AI, there were so many projects with subpar ReadMes, no screenshots, etc. But once you use the software, you realize how good it is.
Source: I maintain a massive collection of open-source alternatives and quality of open-source alternatives have increased a lot
Being turned off by the project because of the ReadMe is your prerogative. I’m just suggesting you dig into the code sometimes, the ReadMe is not the be all, end all.
The point is that if they looked at the result they'd question themselves. And the fact that they don't is a violation of the social contract: I can hardly be expected to care about your work, if you don't.
Just the bare minimum effort to do that would be nice.
Slop is an instant tab close for me. If something’s good, it’ll come around again. I’ll catch it when there's some evidence that it’s worth my time.
I wish they'd just use Astra instead. It doesn't write this awful prose.
I'd say "imagine if half the posts on HN aren't worth your time" but this is genuinely how it feels nowadays. I'm not sorry