Yeah, it's qualities that are useful for humans, too, like frontloading all the errors to compile time + good compiler error messages.

Like, I'm annoyed that people will be irrational about it, much like they associate Rust with rewrites in permissive licenses, even though it is just a tool. It entirely depends on how you use the tool.
But irrational people gonna irrational. Not much you can do about that...

We understand you perfectly well; Rust is fine, too, but no language can take the place of C. I mean, wouldn't it have been better if it had been written in C?

I for one grasp C and work with it, no big deal. AI does it well too and is probably going to eat the fun-of-coding out of my job. That's sad to me but, it's not useless. For now there's a lot of stuff we didn't maintain like docs and unit tests and thanks to ai it's kept up to date now, not that it's very important but we strive at just doing more, not being less workers.

Point out any issues or changes you'd make!

(So I can feed them into my prompt and pretend I knew what you were talking about)

Proprietary is a deal breaker (and SaaSS is a subset of that), so if the only option is slop then I guess I have to use slop.

But, realistically, neither. I haven't found a situation so far in which the only viable option is vibe coded.

No

If it is a hypothetical then I would pick the "neither option crap," you do not get to control my choices

In what world are the only options SAAS or vibe coded? Maybe at that point I don't need that program.

>Welcome, what is your name?

Intl

>Have a good day Intl!

Exiting program...

Blink twice if you're in danger

Surprisingly not a red flag, it can be used to sabotage potential sloppers.

... is an indication of tooling, not a scarlet letter that AI contributed to the source code. A dev can include AGENTS.md to support automated maintenance (pre-commit hooks, config scripts, Github actions) without making AI part of the software. Does Makefile mean GNU Make wrote your program?

"AI. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means"

This is pretty much the whole dilema though. By sharing it and putting it on GitHub you're just making the AI slop contributions problem worse.

AI has also enabled me to do so many crazy projects I know are way beyond my skill level in a pre-AI world, and although I'd love to share some of them I've determined it's just not worthwhile. Anyone technically inclined enough and sufficiently motivated can repeat the same process I did if they want similar tools. AI indeed makes mistakes, but it's scary good at code and has completely revolutionized workflows in every CS position I know of in my company as well as every college CS friend's company. It's better at catching edge cases than humans and writes comments that actually explain what a function does in context of the rest of the program. It's a shame it's all built on stolen training data and forum suggestions from people who were trying to help others in good-faith, but the end result is an undeniably useful tool.

If you have any project ideas or clearly scoped changes to existing open source software you already use daily, it's worth trying for yourself. Google Antigravity is my preferred tool for this sort of thing at a hobbyist level and has a relatively generous free tier. VS Code with copilot is more common professionally and although with the right models connected it's generally better at outputting code that looks less like it's vibe coded, I wouldn't say it's all that much more powerful of a tool for just getting a personal project working.

They are on github, actually. One of them allows betterbird and the likes to set email reminders (reminders as email).