Programming

I am surprised that someone comes to share an open-source project and Nate's first reflex is "let me go look for traces of AI in what was generated". That impresses me.

You know Nate, I could have just let this comment fade out, but I am not going to. Let me tell you why.

When someone shows me a product, here is how I react, as a developer and incidentally as a human being:

1. I look at whether it solves a technical problem I am facing.
2. I check whether it is safe to install. Are there security or privacy concerns?
3. I install it and I use it.
4. If I feel like commenting at that point, I do it, and I do it constructively, because the person on the other side spent time and energy to put a tool in my hands.
5. If I can, I help.

That is how I would have reacted. We are all different, and that is a good thing for humanity. Difference is richness.

@Nate, whether the code is entirely generated by Claude, GPT, Gemini, Cursor or anything else, I want to tell you that it is none of your business, unless you have something against AI itself, in which case you could have said so clearly or just kept scrolling. The site has plenty of other topics where you can leave comments that will satisfy you.

Me, I am just a simple Developer (with a capital D anyway) who shares projects that nobody is forced to use. You can criticize them on the substance, on the form, but not on the way they were developed, because you do not know how they were developed, and do not forget that the important thing is the result. As for the means, I can reassure you, they are decent. I did not kill anyone along the way.

This reminds me of the unjustified pile-on against people who try to share things, but who get blamed for using AI in 2026.

Thanks Nate for your sharp eye and your constructive criticism.