(not sure where to post this...)

I had an idea there might be a TUI lib for typescript. A duckduckgo search came up with an article that described exactly what I wanted!
So of course I immediately searched for this fabled tui lib. A quick search didn't reveal anything, and npm can't seem to find it either! https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=Tui
Navigating directly to the npm package page reveals a 10 year old got repo with no actual code... (https://github.com/basarat/tui)

What the scuff is this world coming to?!
This seems to absolutely align with my experience of using LLMs

(Also accepting suggestions for typescript TUI libs that actually exist!)

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm pretty much 100% this is a fully LLM generated article. That lib absolutely doesn't exist.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I recently had the same experience. Go looking for software; find an article that describes a project in detail that does exactly what you asked for; project doesn't exist; further investigation finds no reference to the software anywhere other than that article.

    This has happened a couple of times to me; the tip-off is that there's no link to the project in the article, although sometimes there'll be a link to a domain owned by a squatter or something unrelated. Unless the article has a date and it's from a decade ago, I chalk those up to AI as well. I'm certain there are thousands of abandoned projects and domains, deleted repos, and so forth, but I think increasingly the odds of AI shenanigans are pretty high in these cases.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What do you mean by TUI? Terminal User Interface? If so, inquirer is nice for CLI prompts to the user for input

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