# AISlop CLI

9 Hacker News commenters recommended AISlop CLI and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a linter that flags AI-generated code smells and works as a quality gate; the most common caveat is false positives, and critics say it overlaps existing linters.

## Why people recommend it

- Catches AI-specific code patterns (3 comments): "projects of mine last modified before 2016 all contain critical AI slop. So very accurate." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324001)) "This is so good and comprehensive. I will be adding this to the list of patterns to check." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48324719)) "A linter with rules for AI-specific weirdness is absolutely a great idea" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323177))
- Quality gate for AI-generated code (2 comments): "You can see the tool as a quality gate you put in place to ensure that any AI generated code meets a standard." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323782)) "A linter with rules for AI-specific weirdness is absolutely a great idea" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323177))

## What people warn about

- Reports many false positives (2 comments): "I tried it but see a lot of false positives." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323511)) "there were a lot of false positives" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323727))
- Misreports some errors and scores (2 comments): "it reports as `Error return value is being ignored` even though it's clearly not an error being ignored" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329796)) "Errors: 0 ; Warnings: 6 --> "56 / 100 Failing" ???" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328267))
- Name 'slop' hurts credibility (2 comments): "it really is a bit weird to incorporate a tool called slop into a corporate CICD flow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323250)) "credibility is lost by using "slop" words imo" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323205))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruff](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruff.md): 115 recommend
- [Clippy (Rust linter)](https://hackerapproved.com/p/clippy.md): 58 recommend
- [ESLint](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eslint.md): 32 recommend
- [Biome](https://hackerapproved.com/p/biome.md): 23 recommend
- [Oxlint](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oxlint.md): 20 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "AISlop CLI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/aislop/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).