Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells • Hacker News Board

throw03172019 wrote: post #13

> I’ve been building aislop. This made me chuckle. Cool tool, the dead code checks can be very helpful. I’ve seen Claude leave unused functions when iterating which always frustrates me.

haha. I love the name - aislop

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by Retr0id » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

MonstraG wrote: post #17

Heavykenny wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I currently support up to 8 languages: php, go, rust, python, js and ts

thats 6?

well, they did say "up to" 8

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by stymaar » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

genghisjahn wrote: post #19

MonstraG wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thats 6?

7 and 8 are left as an exercise for the reader.

I have the implementation for languages 7 and 8 but it's too big to fit in this comment section.

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by ryandrake » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

MonstraG wrote: post #17

Heavykenny wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. I currently support up to 8 languages: php, go, rust, python, js and ts

thats 6?

The thread just became meta-ironic, with regard to AI hallucinations.

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by Retr0id » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

Heavykenny wrote: post #24

throw03172019 wrote: post #13

> I’ve been building aislop. This made me chuckle. Cool tool, the dead code checks can be very helpful. I’ve seen Claude leave unused functions when iterating which always frustrates me.

haha. I love the name - aislop

Forgot to switch accounts?

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by vinnymac » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

I tried it but see a lot of false positives.

One funny thing I see it doing is deleting seemingly random comments lines, for example if a file has a comment that spans multiple lines but doesn’t use a multi line comment syntax. It just chooses one at random transforming the once useful comment into slop.

Re: Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells

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Post by Heavykenny » Fri, May 29, 2026, 2:25 PM UTC

sync wrote: post #18

I tried it on my codebase. There's a lot of overlap with tools like Oxlint / ESLint, I'm not sure that's too valuable vs. a more focused tool that actually focuses solely on 'slop' signals. These lint rules tend to get very opinionated which is why those tools expose so many configuration options. One real bug tho: > [ERROR] Imports "mdast" but it's not declared in package.json A type-only import like `import type {…

thanks for this catch, really appreciate. Can you create an issue on GitHub so you can easily track when I resolve this?