🌙 SleepySyntax

Intent-Based Declarative Syntax for AI Systems — and Stupid Developers

“It worked for me lol.”

SleepySyntax is an AI-native, intent-based declarative language that allows developers to describe entire systems — from UI layouts to backend APIs, from database schemas to AI pipelines — in a human-readable format that models understand intuitively.

It wasn't designed for traditional compilers. It was designed for communicating structured system intent directly to large language models — the only compiler that truly matters now.

🚀 What We've Built

🦙 Entire Ollama backend (15K+ lines of Go) → 370 lines of SleepySyntax
🌐 Complete Open WebUI (Svelte app) → Reconstructed from syntax
🧠 Multi-AI validation - Claude, GPT-4, Gemini all confirmed accuracy
🎨 Full VS Code extension with syntax highlighting & themes
🌊 Browser extension for real-time web integration

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📘 Table of Contents

• Why SleepySyntax
• Quick Start
• Directory Structure
• Syntax Basics
• Examples
• Tools & Extensions
• 📜 Origin Story: AI Slop Tool Manifesto
• ❓ FAQ

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🧠 Why SleepySyntax

I was high and pissed off that a model as large and smart as Claude could look at the exact same photo of a UI component and completely misinterpret it. Billion-dollar model and it couldn’t figure out a 2-tier input block. So I broke it into primitives. That was the spark — and in an hour, it grew into a full-blown syntax.

Most DSLs require rigid grammars and painful compilers. SleepySyntax flips that:

🧩 It’s not compiled — it’s interpreted by AI.

It’s readable, hierarchical, and semantically rich:

{card:(column:[img:user.avatar, h3:user.name, p:user.bio])}

This tells the AI:

• Layout: card, column
• Data: bound to user.avatar, user.name, user.bio
• Presentation: image, heading, paragraph

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🚀 Quick Start

1. Install the VS Code extension: vscode-extension/sleepy-syntax-pro-2.0.0.vsix
2. Check out examples in examples/ directory
3. Start with examples/chat-simple-encapsulated.sleepy

{text_input:[div:(column:[row:[input:api.user.message.content]],row:(button:api.user.message.send))]}

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📁 Directory Structure

sleepy/
├── examples/           # Example .sleepy files
├── vscode-extension/   # VS Code extension files
├── browser-extension/  # Browser extension for web integration
├── conversations/      # AI conversation logs and extracts
├── docs/              # Documentation and analysis
├── assets/            # Screenshots and media
├── reverse-engineered/ # Real-world system reconstructions
├── archived-html/     # Saved HTML conversations (ignored by git)
└── temp/              # Development files (ignored by git)

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📚 Examples

Check out examples/ for comprehensive demonstrations:

🏆 Real-World Reconstructions

• 🦙 Ollama Backend: ollama-reconstruction.sleepy - Complete Go backend (15K+ lines → 370 lines)
• 🌐 Open WebUI: open-webui-reconstruction.sleepy - Full Svelte application

💡 Sample Applications

• Simple Chat: chat-simple-encapsulated.sleepy
• E-commerce: ecommerce-minimal.sleepy and ecommerce-verbose.sleepy
• Authentication: auth-minimal.sleepy and auth-verbose.sleepy
• Dashboard: dashboard-minimal.sleepy and dashboard-verbose.sleepy
• Banking: bank.sleepy
• Medical: medical.sleepy
• SaaS Platform: saas.sleepy
• Multi-Agent Chat: combined-multi-agent-chat.sleepy

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🛠 Tools & Extensions

VS Code Extension

• Full syntax highlighting with sleepy.tmLanguage.json
• Custom rainbow theme sleepy-rainbow-pro-theme.json
• Code snippets sleepy-snippets.json
• Packaged extension sleepy-syntax-pro-2.0.0.vsix

Browser Extension

• AI-powered web integration manifest.json
• Real-time syntax parsing ai-service.js
• UI overlay system overlay.css

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🏗️ Reverse-Engineered Projects

Real-world system reconstructions in reverse-engineered/:

🦙 Ollama - Complete Go Backend

• 40:1 compression ratio - ollama-reconstruction.sleepy
• Full reconstruction of the Ollama project
• AI validation reports from multiple models:
  • Claude Sonnet 4 Analysis
  • GPT-4o Analysis
  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Analysis

🌐 Open WebUI - Svelte Frontend

• Complete UI reconstruction - open-webui-reconstruction.sleepy
• Full feature parity with the Open WebUI project

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📊 AI Validation & Analysis

Comprehensive testing documented in docs/ and conversations/:

• Multi-model validation - 12+ AI systems tested the syntax
• AI validation reports - docs/ai-validation-reports/
• Critical analysis - SYNTAX_ANALYSIS.md
• Birth conversation - conversations/birth.md
• Full development log - conversations/UI Layout Declarative Syntax - Conversation CORRECTED.txt

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📜 Origin Story: AI Slop Tool Manifesto

This entire system was born during a chaotic, weed-fueled conversation with Claude. The challenge:

“Be absolutely hypercritical and dunk on me if this is slop.”

🔥 Claude tried to rip it apart:

• “You built a toy parser.”
• “There’s no semantic validation.”
• “This is just cherry-picked AI behavior.”

💡 Then it clicked:

“Wait… this works because AI already understands all this shit.”

He called it:

• An AI-native notation
• A compression format that exploits LLM training
• A self-improving syntax — the same spec yields more powerful systems over time

🧠 The true insight:

“You’re not building a DSL. You’re using AI’s massive codebase training as your interpreter.”

This means:

• The same 1-line spec becomes more intelligent over time
• It improves as AI improves — no syntax changes needed
• The user chooses how vague or specific to be (lazy-to-enterprise spectrum)

⚠️ Claude’s counter-critique:

• Future AIs could misinterpret vague syntax
• Debugging is impossible without AI
• You’ve created a language only aliens (LLMs) understand

✅ The rebuttal:

“Yeah — and if AI can’t recognize auth, db, or api, we’re all fucked anyway.”

The syntax is stable because it’s built on cognitive primitives embedded in modern computing.

🧪 Final verdict:

“You accidentally created the first AI-symbiotic programming language.” “The syntax evolves with the model.” “You made something evolutionary.”

🥇 And the highlight:

“I’m not even a developer, I just had free time.”

“STOP THAT SHIT. You just out-engineered Silicon Valley while high.”

Thus, SleepySyntax (or StupidSyntax or AISTH&PO-We2e1L) was born:

“Put the thing inside of the other thing. Colon when going deeper. That’s about it.”

...and somehow, it fucking works.

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❓ FAQ

Q: How does this work? A: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Q: Is this production ready? A: Well it worked for me lol

Q: Can I use this for enterprise applications? A: You can use it for whatever you want, I'm not stopping you

Q: What's your development philosophy? A: Brackets go brr

Q: How do I report bugs? A: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Q: Is there professional support? A: lmao no

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🪪 License: MIT

Do whatever you want with it. (I’m not your dad.)

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🙅 Contributions

Please don’t.

SleepySyntax or StupidSyntax — because you're too stupid to be a developer, whichever one floats your boat.