is-it-slop

In my experience, low effort LLM-generated slop Rust projects have three common hallmarks:

• using Rust 2021
• (if using workspaces) using workspace resolver version 2
• using generally outdated versions of dependencies

This simple command-line tool can check for this.

Usage

CLI for detecting slop smell

Usage: is-it-slop [OPTIONS] <GITHUB_PROJECT_OR_URL>

Arguments:
  <GITHUB_PROJECT_OR_URL>  Either <USER>/<REPO> or full URL

Options:
      --check              Emit non-zero exit code if any slop detected
      --git-ref <GIT_REF>  HEAD is a reasonable standard, but you can manually specify branch name or specific commit [default: HEAD]
  -h, --help               Print help
  -V, --version            Print version

TODO

I want to detect more common hallmarks and avoid false positives.

1. There are of course non-slop reasons for using older versions, like maybe the project was literally made at a time when that was the latest (#13), maybe some regression in dependency is forcing them to stay?

2. Scanning commit history (#3). Not sure exactly what could qualify as "sloppy". Massive commits? Em-dashes in the message? coauthored-by some LLM?

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No artificial intelligence was used in the making of this.