(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!)
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.
What do you mean by TUI? Terminal User Interface? If so, inquirer is nice for CLI prompts to the user for input
I’m pretty much 100% this is a fully LLM generated article. That lib absolutely doesn’t exist.
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.
