Show HN: Stupify – anti-slop code review for AI agents

Noah Lindner and the team at Bevyl launched Stupify, an anti-slop code review tool for AI agents that judges code against a user-defined taste corpus, running on OpenAI's Codex via exe.dev. The tool aims to improve code quality by enforcing stylistic and structural preferences, with setup taking about two minutes and no payment required.

Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. Kernighan's Law AI agents are rats in a maze. They reach for what they know. And unless you show them better, what they know is slop: most software is garbage https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224 , and they'll happily https://github.com/thesysdev/openui/issues/517 imitate https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/929 it https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1 . actual issues, tells the coding agent exactly how + what to fix more catches, on real PRs → /Octember/stupify/blob/main/docs/PROOF.md Your taste, not the model's. Code is judged against a CORPUS.md : a taste pack taste-packs "code like dtolnay / DHH / antirez …" or your own best files On your personal Codex plan. stupify reviews with Codex https://github.com/openai/codex , running on the $20-$200/month plan. API usage is roughly 50x more expensive, enjoy the subsidized tokens while they last Slop, named. Code review is cheap. Taste is expensive. Codify the goodies, let the LLM pattern match npx @stupify/cli ┌ stupify ◇ using integration acme-widgets ◇ VM stupify-acme-widgets created └ stupify is provisioned for acme/widgets 👀 stupify rides on exe.dev https://exe.dev with no keys or servers to run. Setup takes about two minutes and doesn't require payment. npx @stupify/cli <owner/repo provision for a specific repo npx @stupify/cli setup run the reviewer on this machine instead of a VM npx @stupify/cli status show the latest sweep as a workflow ssh exe.dev rm stupify-<owner -<repo tear it down Every live sweep also posts a GitHub commit status named stupify/review on the PR head commit: pending while queued/running, success when reviewed or policy-skipped, failure when stupify posts findings, and error when the reviewer itself failed. Set GITHUB STATUS=0 in ~/.stupify/config.env to turn that off, or GITHUB STATUS CONTEXT=your/context to rename it. The reviews run on Codex. On exe.dev that's a keyless LLM integration : it fronts your ChatGPT/Codex plan, so the VM holds no API key and your plan is billed instead. Link one once at exe.dev/integrations https://exe.dev/integrations and provisioning attaches it for you Don't have a corpus yet? Borrow one. Pick a programmer whose code you'd point a new hire at and review and write like them, or compose several: dtolnay /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/dtolnay.md · DHH /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/dhh.md · antirez /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/antirez.md · Sindre Sorhus /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/sindre-sorhus.md · Rich Harris /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/rich-harris.md · zod /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/zod.md · Mitchell Hashimoto /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/mitchell-hashimoto.md · Tanner Linsley /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/tanner-linsley.md · Simon Willison /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/simon-willison.md · devshorts /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/devshorts.md · Jarred Sumner /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs/jarred-sumner.md · browse all → /Octember/stupify/blob/main/packs Each pack is concrete principles plus commit-pinned exemplar files. Or bring your own : point stupify at the files you wish all your code looked like, and it scaffolds a .review/ in your repo: npx @stupify/cli init src/best.ts src/clean-service.ts inlines them; you add one line of "why" each MIT /Octember/stupify/blob/main/LICENSE © Noah Lindner. Built by the team at Bevyl https://bevyl.ai . stupif.ai , read it "stupify". PRs welcome, it'll review them 😈