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  • What I’m saying is that we don’t see anything beyond personal projects. I’m sure a lot of AI generated code ends up on github but do we see acceleration in public projects? The open source projects I see and use move just as fast. I don’t see explosion of useful tools or all the issues being resolved faster. Open source projects never say “we have seen increase in contribution and bug fixes”, they always say that they just see useless pull requests. If AI is so great at coding where is all the great code? Right now it’s like generating lots of gibberish text and saying that AI is great at writing books.





  • You are 100% right, people tend to make up crazy theories while trying to make Google more evil than it is. My main issues with Google are:

    • using Youtube viewing data to push braindead clickbait content at everyone to maximize engagement. It’s been proven many time that watching Youtube radicalizes people and it’s a huge problem affecting entire generations
    • Locking down platforms like Android: first paying companies to put their apps and services on phones and now locking down AOSP and side loading. It’s just a dick move to force everyone to use their platform and sell more ads on it. They are trying to do the same with web
    • supporting fascists financially and selling tech to war criminals, obviously, but that’s unrelated to data

    I don’t care that much for other products because I don’t use them, I have all the ads blocked and it doesn’t really affect me.



  • When Peter first got me hooked on Claude, I did not sleep. I spent two months excessively prompting the thing and wasting tokens. I ended up building and building and creating a ton of tools I did not end up using much.

    So where is all this code? Where are all the great tools everyone is building? So far all I’ve seen are some bad web games, parody projects and mentions of mysterious tools for personal use. If it’s so easy to code now why we don’t see explosion of projects everyone needs? Just use AI to make Servo based browser, make PostmarketOS run flawlessly on modern phones and give me open source apps for all the shit IoT products sold everywhere.

    It’s a rhetorical question. We all know why we don’t see it.

    I’m working on a app now and I’m spending half of my time on thinking about the UI/UX, trying different options, selecting/designing icons, perfecting minor details in user flow. Other half is mostly trying to make the code clean and maintainable and learning new tools. AI agent would probably make a prototype in a couple of hours and then I could dump it on github and forget about it.

    That being said I would like to use AI for couple of project I had in mind for a long time. Translate some github actions into gitlab CI/CD so I can migrate my projects, translate some JavaScript APIs into Rust (WebAssembly). It’s boring work and AI should be able to handle it. It would be nice if some of the vibe coders did things like that but my guess is they don’t really touch real projects people use (or don’t understand them enough to contribute anything useful, just flood them with shit quality PRs), just generate bunch of slop that no one cares about.