go-torrent-client

Similar to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44265851 "Show HN: I wrote a BitTorrent Client from scratch" [2025-06-13], https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client

The README is likely AI-generated. The actual go.mod file lists 1.23.1 as the Go version[1], which implies a requirement of Go 1.23.1 or higher[2]. [1] https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/blob/6130... [2] https://go.dev/doc/modules/gomod-ref#go-notes

In the tests it more obvious: You can see here for example: https://github.com/piyushgupta53/go-torrent-client/commit/61... and some strings coming from crawled resources like: lengthi12345e4 but slightly different tokens (like 25 instead of 35 etc). Gemini Pro 2.5 even gave me the prompt: > If you asked me, "Generate Go unit tests for a Bencode decoder function called Decode that takes an io.Reader and returns an interface{} and an error. Cover strings, integers, lists, and dictionaries, including common error cases and nested structures" the output I would strive to produce would look very much like the code you've shown. > It's a good example of well-written Go tests, and that's the kind of pattern I've learned to recognize and replicate. and a lot actually matches when you ask from a fresh conversation. So most likely Cursor + Gemini

I picked up programming in late 2023 and been enjoying it now. Wanted to challenge myself and set a stretch goal, so set out to build a bittorrent client.