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.

It’s not AI generated. It’s made with help of AI. Is every software AI generated nowadays? Most developers will use AI simply because it lets you do more work in less time.

I’ve self-hosted nextcloud for a while, and never really liked the experience. Many minor details I won’t remember now, some I can remember:

• it being very heavy and wouldn’t run too smoothly on 1GB $5 VPS
• it felt like using a bunch of different glued together software
• It would flick the screen white when loading other pages
• It didn’t felt too customisable other than by editing code itself
• It didn’t “feel nice”. Having a bunch of modular apps, none really well designed, regarding UX.

I don’t want to shit on nextcloud too much, it’s an amazing project that covers way more stuff than my one-person project does, but tell me:

Why are you creating a dichotomy out of it being vibecoded or mindfully crafted? There is much I still want to do, but so far that’s exactly what I’ve done so far — mindfully crafted it.

Not 10 days. Commit history is public, check it out. As far as auditions go, you’re welcome to report bugs.

Anyone know when this started becoming ominous? I’m sure every TV in the sixties didn’t have a microphone on their remotes; I am sure pretty much each one being released today has.