You are correct about almost everything, except that I’d abandon the project. I had been already a software engineer for four years, before AI came along, and I really enjoyed. I agree with you that this party is not gonna last forever, but I still think makes total sense to take advantage of it while it lasts. I don’t ask Claude to keep adding features like crazy, I ask it to create specific tests, I ask him to recreate some parts of the codebase using shared components, I ask him to split services from API routes, etc. I try to keep it organized — sure, I am not auditing every of it, because I simply can’t, but this is not messy slop. How do I know? Because I’ve been working HARD for it NOT to be slop, for more than six months.
If you tell me that this is AI generated, I’m going to know that the risk that you’ll abandon it is much higher than if you are working on it yourself
It’s not AI generated. From the downvotes I got I see that people mostly don’t understand this, but there is huge difference between prompting “Make me a webapp that has tasks, a calendar, todo lists, goals and everything else that’s important and make no mistakes so it works well” and from, for the span of six months, carefully thinking about which stack to use, how to structure data, how to present it in forms and readable tables so the UX is not shitty, etc.
I think the FOSS community right now is at some kind of boy-cries-wolf situation where the spam of AI slop is so great that many people are willing to throw the baby out together with the bath water when they see a project that is not slop but that was created with the help of AI:
“Oh look, OP used AI in his project instead of writing code like a good Neanderthal, let’s shit on his head”
The truth is we’ll all have to adapt. If I, completely by myself, managed to do what I think that is the best life management app out there (yes I am biased) — what could people do together? Maybe the time has come where every proprietary solution has a good, and I mean GOOD, alternative. We can do that, using AI, but surely not if we treat it with all this hostility because of all the evil associated with it — I said I was a software engineer for 4 years before AI came along, you guys think I don’t miss it? When I easily felt valued, because I could use my brain to solve REAL problems in the REAL WORLD?
Well, that time is over. Cry now, cry later, or don’t cry at all and try to do the best with the shit timeline we’re stuck in.
You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t disclose that it was built with AI, then you got defensive when you got called out on it. You can think we all hate AI all you want, but what we really hate is dishonesty.
Your commits don’t list Claude as an author, they list you. But you didn’t actually write those commits. You claim copyright ownership over this codebase, too. Maybe you’re unaware, but you can’t actually copyright something that was AI generated. At best, you own copyrights to some of the code.
Congratulations on being a dev for four years before AI. Are you really willing to ruin your reputation now by not being truthful about where the code in your codebase came from?
Also, you couldn’t even delete the files that Claude left in there yourself. What possible indication do I have that you would work on this project without Claude there to do everything for you?
You are correct about almost everything, except that I’d abandon the project. I had been already a software engineer for four years, before AI came along, and I really enjoyed. I agree with you that this party is not gonna last forever, but I still think makes total sense to take advantage of it while it lasts. I don’t ask Claude to keep adding features like crazy, I ask it to create specific tests, I ask him to recreate some parts of the codebase using shared components, I ask him to split services from API routes, etc. I try to keep it organized — sure, I am not auditing every of it, because I simply can’t, but this is not messy slop. How do I know? Because I’ve been working HARD for it NOT to be slop, for more than six months.
It’s not AI generated. From the downvotes I got I see that people mostly don’t understand this, but there is huge difference between prompting “Make me a webapp that has tasks, a calendar, todo lists, goals and everything else that’s important and make no mistakes so it works well” and from, for the span of six months, carefully thinking about which stack to use, how to structure data, how to present it in forms and readable tables so the UX is not shitty, etc.
I think the FOSS community right now is at some kind of boy-cries-wolf situation where the spam of AI slop is so great that many people are willing to throw the baby out together with the bath water when they see a project that is not slop but that was created with the help of AI:
“Oh look, OP used AI in his project instead of writing code like a good Neanderthal, let’s shit on his head”
The truth is we’ll all have to adapt. If I, completely by myself, managed to do what I think that is the best life management app out there (yes I am biased) — what could people do together? Maybe the time has come where every proprietary solution has a good, and I mean GOOD, alternative. We can do that, using AI, but surely not if we treat it with all this hostility because of all the evil associated with it — I said I was a software engineer for 4 years before AI came along, you guys think I don’t miss it? When I easily felt valued, because I could use my brain to solve REAL problems in the REAL WORLD?
Well, that time is over. Cry now, cry later, or don’t cry at all and try to do the best with the shit timeline we’re stuck in.
You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t disclose that it was built with AI, then you got defensive when you got called out on it. You can think we all hate AI all you want, but what we really hate is dishonesty.
Your commits don’t list Claude as an author, they list you. But you didn’t actually write those commits. You claim copyright ownership over this codebase, too. Maybe you’re unaware, but you can’t actually copyright something that was AI generated. At best, you own copyrights to some of the code.
Congratulations on being a dev for four years before AI. Are you really willing to ruin your reputation now by not being truthful about where the code in your codebase came from?
Also, you couldn’t even delete the files that Claude left in there yourself. What possible indication do I have that you would work on this project without Claude there to do everything for you?