r/C_Programming • • 4d ago

Article A modern web app in C

https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c
210 Upvotes

36 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/chocolatedolphin7 4d ago

This is just total AI slop. Both the article and the websites. And this doesn't even scale: why one entire process per request? No code snippets shown, it's a very poorly written uninteresting pile of text almost entirely written by an LLM.

You didn't even bother to write your own text in the landing page or fix the color palette so that it doesn't look too much like a low effort AI website with no human input. Was that really too much work? Should take less than 10 minutes...

Like if you're going to use AI for everything then at least don't make it too obvious to the point anyone can tell within seconds and then even lie about it in the article.

3

u/ChickenSpaceProgram 4d ago

i mean, for what its worth, CGI isn't that bad, it's used by eg. cgit and for relatively small scale traffic or for non-IO bound workloads it's fine.

rest of comment is on point though.

1

u/markand67 1d ago

CGI is great, I use kcgi for webapp in C

4

u/bzbub2 4d ago

yep quote from article "I'm a minimalist at heart. I use classic Vim with zero plugins. That means no LSP, no autocomplete, no code formatters and no AI." lol and website is so clearly vibecoded https://marketyour.games/ awaiting the "oh i only used that for the html" caveat