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joshua stein
@jcs.org

I have lost all enthusiasm for reading about new software projects, especially dealing with vintage computing. What would have sounded amazing a year or two ago and made me want to engage with the author, I now just assume was something AI spit out and feels hollow and boring so I skim past it.

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benji
@eax.dev

This exactly. I used to have a strong passion for writing software but it's basically dead now. I've seen too many people try to pass off Claude-written code as their own, and it's simply humiliating to me.

benji
@eax.dev

Part of the fun always was making it yourself. You used to be able to see a bit of the developer in their projects. And now it's just... one "guy" ghostwriting everything you see nowadays. At least AI written code still has painfully obvious dead giveaways.

Sites On Fire
@sitesonfire.bsky.social

I've seen this myself. Lots of big new projects out there, which are not impressive because of AI. I've enjoyed getting into 68k Mac programming as it's distraction free, there's no AI agents in Think C. I've been using your projects as references to learn. It's good to get back to the 'old ways'

joshua stein
@jcs.org

And writing software feels like being Marge in that go-kart race. Work slow and steady for a year writing something neat that had never been brought to a platform before, but someone can hear about it and use Claude to whiz by you in a week and make something with 10 times the functionality.

Zelse
@zelse.bsky.social

How many of those projects will stand the test of time though? A lot of them seem to die quiet deaths when the vibe coder hits the limits of the model and neither can cope with the morass of spaghetti, no? (Love your work btw!)

milo
@mtmilo.net

It's a tragedy of fun and educational projects that only going to get worse Immediately reminded me of Lina's situation a couple of weeks back

Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding prep!!!@lina.yt

Apparently someone already wrote a whole production Swift wrapper for the AppleCVA face tracking framework I discovered. I'm pretty sure it was vibe coded. This sucks. I'm doing this both to help people and to teach myself Switch and macOS programming. What's the point now?