Sloppylint
A linter for AI-generated Python code
Details
- External ID
- 46167703
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Sloppylint
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 5, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 19
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6412213740458015
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
AI coding assistants are productive but sloppy. They produce code that looks right but:- Imports packages that don't exist - Uses placeholder functions that do nothing - Leaks patterns from JavaScript, Java, Ruby into Python - Leaves behind dead code and duplicates - Uses mutable default argumentsI built sloppylint to catch these "AI slop" patterns before they hit production. pip install sloppylint sloppylint . It detects 100+ patterns across categories: - Hallucinated imports (20% of AI imports reference non-existent packages) - Placeholder code (`pass`, `...`, `TODO`) - Wrong-language patterns (.push(), .equals(), .forEach()) - Mutable defaults, bare excepts, dead codeThis isn't a replacement for traditional linters - it catches the specific mistakes AI makes that humans wouldn't.https://github.com/rsionnach/sloppylint
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and programming utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- linter for ai-generated python code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Sloppylint is a static analysis tool/linter for Python that inspects AST nodes and regex patterns for common AI hallucinations and anti-patterns.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: existing linters
Concerns raised: overlaps with existing linter coverage
Feature requests: pre-commit support
Competitors
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Launched 26 days after the earliest competitor.
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