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Am I going mad, or is this an entirely hallucinated article? (www.webdevtutor.net)

submitted 1 week ago by towerful to c/software_gore

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(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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I've found hallucinated libraries or hallucinated functions/cmdlets and articles written about them more than once. LLMs are truly poisoning the well of information that is the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] towerful 2 points 6 days ago

Yeh, basically.
The project I'm working on is a lot of typescript. And a part of it is a bunch of nodejs admin/management stuff.
I'm using Commander at the moment and it's... Fine.
Thought I might try a terminal/text user interface.
I found this ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/ink ) and it looks good