sslx: A fast, modern alternative to OpenSSL's CLI
14 points by gmem
14 points by gmem
Judging by the CHANGELOG.md in the first commit I guess this was some sort of internal tool? Or did Claude hallucinate those first releases?
Another irony in that commit, it's for sslx v0.3.1 but the v0.4.0 tag is pointing at it.
Looking at the README screenshots, Claude loves making those little unicode checkmark views, also the mal-aligned terminal text boxes. Kind of makes it obvious no human has reviewed it.
If you want something like this for real, try https://smallstep.com/docs/step-cli/
Are you saying this one isn't "for real" because it's vibecoded? If so, I've got bad news...
Looks like claude's in the top 15 on the smallstep cli contributor list:
https://github.com/smallstep/cli
and is involved in the most recent non-dependency-bump commits:
https://github.com/smallstep/cli/commit/075e84576087dc723c3fc399967fc5c44afefdf7
I meant “for real” in “if you are looking for an openssl(1) alternative”.
Also there is a huge difference between vibe coding a one shot thing like this and using LLMs in general. Though to be fair I have not looked at the recent history of step. It’s multiple years old and predates LLMs.
Also it’s a bit ingenious to say Claude is in the top 15 contributors when it’s made less than 10 commits while there are two people with about a thousand each.
Also it’s a bit ingenious to say Claude is in the top 15 contributors when it’s made less than 10 commits while there are two people with about a thousand each.
Sorry for that. I didn't look at totals or anything. I just saw that my github UI listed 14 contributors on the main page and said there'd been 91 total contributors. And Claude was about number 11 or so. Calling it "in the top 15" seemed reasonable in that context, to me.
It does look like recent development is pretty slow, so I'm not sure how much I care about the bot's contributions; I was only asking the question because the other comments in the thread were talking about vibecoding and yours offered the "for real" contrast, and I wasn't sure what you were referring to but that was the thing that fit the surrounding comments here.