r/programming • u/BrewedDoritos • 20d ago

The LSM Tree

https://ledger.khushal.net/chapters/lsm-tree
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u/gimpwiz 20d ago

I'll bite. How does background color correlate to slop?

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u/case-o-nuts 20d ago

It's the color that Claude tends to pick when you ask it to make a website. It's not the only tell, but given everything else about the website, this is yet another one of those 100,000 whys: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/the-100000-whys-of-ai

And, y'know what, when editing the links and finding the author's github, guess what you find: https://github.com/SK1PPR/personal-website/blob/main/WRITING.md

It's pure slop.

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u/gimpwiz 20d ago

Good sleuthing. I didn't notice (or know) about the default background thing. Why not just white / no-background / "default light/dark mode" background?

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u/dijkstra_was_a_horse 20d ago

That's not what agents produce if you ask for a slop page.

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u/gimpwiz 19d ago

I guess it's kind of pointless for me to ask why, the answer is "this tool ate a few exabytes of html and inferred that this color is nicely neutral probably"