AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
Details
- External ID
- 48322956
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 73
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8715670436187399
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hi, I’m Kenny, I’ve been building aislop. I starting working on this after using Claude Code, codex and opencode several times and noticing some slops. They aren’t syntax and passes most tests, they are patterns like empty catch blocks, useless comments, duplicated helpers, dead code and many more. So I built a tool to scan and check for these patterns and wired it into hooks so after each tool call, the agent checks for the slops.You can try it out with npx aislop scan.It’s all local and no code is transferred. Thank you.
Enrichment
- Theme
- AI agent frameworks and developer tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- detect ai-generated code patterns
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CLI linter that parses ASTs using libraries like tree-sitter to detect common code smells such as empty catch blocks or duplicated helpers.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other language-specific linters (half a dozen used in rotation), Deterministic linters
Concerns raised: False positives on language-specific patterns (Go's ok-ignore idiom), Difficulty distinguishing junior dev mistakes from AI-generated code, Scoring/calculation appears incorrect (Postgres showing 56/100 failing with only 6 warnings), Over-detection of redundant safeguards may discourage legitimate defensive programming, Chicken-and-egg problem: definition of 'slop' varies by model training/RLHF
Feature requests: Allow-list syntax to mark intentional patterns (like Rust's #[allow(...)]), Dead code detection, Detection of redundant defensive code and over-use of null coalescing, DRY principle violations and architectural pattern deviations, Unnecessary guard code and overly backwards-compatible changes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 109 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 110 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 200 days after the earliest competitor.
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- anti-ai-slop · github · 2026-09-14 · 68 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- I built a tool to auto-accept AI slop and bigtech devs loves it · hn · 2026-05-26 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Sloppylint · hn · 2025-12-05 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Git Push No-Mistakes · hn · 2026-04-20 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Isitslop.xyz, a free AI-writing detector built on latest research · hn · 2026-06-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Vibecheck · hn · 2026-03-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Scan any website for AI design patterns · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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