Show HN: An automaton's code review of Gas Town with sycophancy-mode disabled

Today I got some insight into the code quality of Steve Yegge's Gas Town by running it through Sonar Cloud [1]

I followed that up with — appropriately — a vibe code review [2]…

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Brutal Verdict:

You’ve built a message bus out of duct tape and string. It’s "Booch-like" only in the sense that you’ve abstracted the concept of a channel, but the _implementation_ is pure "boot-camp-grad-on-their-third-Red-Bull."

You are using a high-performance versioned database (Dolt) to store... manually parsed colon-separated strings. _Why?_

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[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/CCWutUHalfDone

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/ItsaGasGasGas

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Darmani 5mo ago ↗

I think this could work well as a blog post. If you're not willing to read the code yourself, maybe you could at least go through the report yourself and point out issues it highlights, show the relevant code, and explain why that's actually bad.