tl;dr a rant about new accounts advertising their vibe coded projects.

Since a couple of weeks I notice more and more brandnew accounts from various instances joining the threadiverse, just to post about their new service, software or game "they built".

No you didn't built this!

Every time I looked into the repo (if provided) there was a fucking AGENTS.md telling a clanker what to do.

And now you're coming in here. You don't care about the community you post in. You don't want to participate and contribute to this place. Your first post is a fucking ad for your new thing that "you've built".

But you didn't built it!

I'm not a full stack developer, but I've worked alongside developers who built amazing stuff for the free and open web. The lenghty discussions about wether a feature should be implemented this or that way, the long nights of trying to get a feature ready, only to throw it all away the next day because you realized it wasn't that good of an idea after all. It's hard work.

You just had a quick idea, told the billionaire bot what to do, and vomited out thousands of lines of code in a couple hours.

No, I won't check out your new thing that "you made".

And that's the sad part. Open source used to be fun. Discovering new stuff that others had built, giving it a try and maybe finding a small bug and opening a pull request. That feeling of working together on something that can be used by everyone, despite not knowing each other.

You don't have any of that. And you don't deserve my attention, because you didn't build anything.

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[–] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (8 children)

I agree with your sentiment. On a side note if English isn't your first language just so you know built/build can seem very similar. Standardly one would say I built this in past tense. If someone says you didn't built this for some reason it's wrong where I'm from, it reverts to the present of build. "You didn't build this". Not sure 100% why.

I want to build a bridge vs I built a bridge. Maybe it is because when you said "you didn't build this", it is in the present accusation... English is dumb

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    In my nowhere near professional opinion, I think it's because in the phrase "You didn't build this", "didn't" is in the present tense, so "build" has to follow in the same tense. If the phrase were "You hadn't built this", because "hadn't" is past tense (or at least acts that way), then "built" would follow. My only justification is that this sounds right to my ear, and it's a loose theory as to why. The only consistent thing about English is the inconsistency

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    You are almost correct; “didn’t” (or “did not” in its uncontracted form) is considered past-tense. Since you’ve already shifted the tense to the past, you no longer need to do so for the following verb - you are “already in” the past!

    So “didn’t go” vs “didn’t went”, “didn’t build” Vs “didn’t built”. The verbs following a past-tense auxiliary verb retain their simple form.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Ha, I did indeed struggle with the grammar there. I know that "did built" is wrong, but that one must've slipped. I'm not going to edit it now, since it would take value from your comment. Thanks for the insight. English isn't my first language indeed.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago

    I think it works. It's a way to add emphasis, kind of spitting back what they've claimed.

    You're not processing it. You're not adapting what they've said to proper English.

    The debate isn't wrong, but this one seems acceptable to me as a writer's flourish, consciously or not.

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