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Comment by frio | original | Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself
[−]frio · 2026-07-02 Thu 02:23 UTC · link
I am bone tired of slop. This looks like a useful thing to build (the cameras in existing closed source robo vacuums creep me out), but when people don't even write their announcement blog post by hand it gives me zero confidence in the project getting anywhere meaningful.

Perhaps not the place to share this, but it's depressing. I hope this proves me wrong.

[−]jimnotgym · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:26 UTC · link
Isn't a AI generated blog post better than someone building a useful thing and nobody hearing about it?
[−]Gigachad · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:44 UTC · link
The AI slop is noise pushing out valuable posts someone put effort in to.
[−]Systemerror7A69 · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:47 UTC · link
It's a bit of an indicator about the effort they put into it. If they don't even write their blogpost themselves the question of "how much effort and thought did they put into the rest of their code / product".

Now, obviously they might just be bad at writing blogposts but surprisingly often it seems to be a decent red flag.

Because the thing is that the less effort you put into that the more anyone can just...reproduce the idea with their own LLM.

Even if s.o buil a cool thing and wants to share it with the world, if all they did was prompt Claude for a weekend what is stopping me from just doing it myself? Then I can even get it however I want.

[−]camel_gopher · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:00 UTC · link
Or the time they had available. Maybe they have a full time job, parents to care for, kids to care for. But still they wanted to scratch the itch.
[−]cwillu · 2026-07-02 Thu 05:58 UTC · link
No, it's not. It's an indicator that they're prioritizing the easy things surrounding the work, rather than the actual work.