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Aster Rin
Aster Rin

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Vibe-Degrade:make your code smell like AI

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

What I Built

vibe-degrade is a tiny, delightfully useless Python tool that "adds AI flavor" to your code. It doesn't fix bugs or improve style — it makes your code look like an overzealous (and incompetent) AI touched it.

What it injects (including but not limited to):

  • meaningless protective logic
  • stupid type casts that accomplish nothing
  • misspellings and odd word replacements in comments/strings
  • if/else branches that will never be executed
  • pointless print() statements and debug noise

The goal is maximal comedic value: make code parseable and runnable, but suspiciously AI-made.

Demo & Code

https://github.com/EKiritsugu/CodeDumbifier

How I Built It

  • Language: Python.
  • Approach: small code rewrites using AST for structure and token-level edits for strings/comments.
  • Behavior: a tiny scheduler randomly applies lightweight transforms .

Prize Category

418challenge

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