AI is killing the web

Yeah, I know the are a lot of articles with titles like this.
I just want to share my latest experience with AI that left me just shocked.

A couple of weeks ago I was geeking around, learning Dioxus framework.¹

After playing with it for a while, I started to look at what could be missing in Dioxus for it to be really better.
One obvious thing (in my opinion) would be to have type-safe CSS.
I really like the styled-components approach in the typescript ecosystem, and I wanted something like that.
After some digging, I could not find anything² useful.

Then I found something called dioxus-odin on a github.io page of some guy named ryanparsley that seemed to be exactly what I wanted. And it was really well ranked in duckduckgo!

First result when searching for dioxus styledcomponent³

Hooray! It was exactly what I was looking for! Even when looking at the code examples we can see it’s a good fit for what I want to do!

use dioxus::prelude::*;
use dioxus_free_css::{css, Style};

fn StyledComponent(cx: Scope) -> Element {
    let style = css!(
        "
        .container {
            background-color: #f0f0f0;
            padding: 20px;
            border-radius: 5px;
        }
        .title {
            color: #333;
            font-size: 24px;
        }
        "
    );

    cx.render(rsx! {
        Style { css: style }
        div { class: "container",
            h1 { class: "title", "Styled Component" }
            p { "This component is styled using CSS-in-Rust." }
        }
    })
}

Ok great, now I just have to look into the dioxus_free_css crate!

Wait a minute, I cannot find anything about this crate, how strange.
After searching into the archives, replacing _ with -, and other shenanigans we do everyday, I had to face the evidence: This crate does not exist!
How is this possible?
What is this site talking about?

Wait, dioxus odin does not exists outside this website either?

I thought I was going insane because I could not think that this was some bullshit AI generated website and everything in it was fake!

Then I found the github repo the website comes from, and in the About section you can read this:

Using AI to convert Odin Project into a plan to learn Dioxus

That’s it, and I’m pissed. I’m pissed this site exists, I’m pissed I have to be even more careful now when browsing the web. I’m pissed that my level of trust has dropped dramaticaly since then. I mean, does this Ryan even exists?