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selfhoster1312 | on: The Website Specification
This looks like slop from a slop factory. "SEO", "Agent-readiness". That's precisely what a good website doesn't do (to paraphrase the homepage).

Oh yes, it's produced by a Wordpress "SEO" expert and private investor using Claude LLM. What a surprise. A man who built a fortune destroying the internet we loved with advertisement slop now working on destroying whatever's left with LLM slop.

wenderen | parent | next
From the about page (https://specification.website/about/):

> Not a framework. Not a guide. A spec — what is required, what is recommended, and what to avoid.

It's hard to tell how much of the site is LLM slop, but some of the copy sure is.

mschuster91 | root | parent
> It's hard to tell how much of the site is LLM slop, but some of the copy sure is.

Can't speak for the AI readiness stuff, the general webdev stuff is solid. Copy is fluffed up of course but didn't find any glaring errors and omissions.

brazukadev | root | parent
> the general webdev stuff is solid

AI content is not bad. It is just slop, soulless, revolting.

jeroenhd | parent | next
The em dashes and word patterns ("it's not X, it's Y") and duplicate contents pretty much prove that this is AI to me.

Flagging "stable URLs" as "agent readiness" indicates to me that whoever wrote this cares more about AI than people. This domain is going on my blacklist, I can already see how this will make looking up any information about web development worse.

Alifatisk | parent | next
Its apparently pure ai slop, I use https://tropes.fyi/vetter
nozzlegear | root | parent
I tried this just now on a landing page for an app that I wrote over a decade ago and it told me it was pure AI slop lol
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rafram | root | parent
I tried it on my personal website, which I wrote without any AI whatsoever, and it decided it's "pure AI slop" based on "tricolon abuse" alone. I would be less mad if the examples it flagged were actually tricolons, but only a couple of them were! Most were lists with more than three things in them.

The slop detector, alas, is slop.

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bblb | parent | next
The full spec in single page is like a poster boy for the current AI slop webdev.

    https://specification.website/llms-full.txt
gwerbin | root | parent
What do you mean by this? Making the site friendly to AI agents is one of the goals of this project, so why are you surprised that it follows its own recommended practices? That doesn't mean it's an AI slop project.
TZubiri | parent
It triggers slop flags for me too.

1 - The little color tags : required, optional, recommended.

2 - The insane amount of content no one is ever going to read

3 - the weak premise for an idea carried out to excruciating detail