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points by foltik 2 days ago | 0 comments

Agreed, and I don't care what tools someone uses. But if all they have to show is an AI generated README and pile of slop code with no sign of any human choices or curation, "don't judge the tools" doesn’t really apply.

It’s not “using a tool” when you farm out 99.999% of decisions to coin flips besides a random initial seed set by a few sentence prompt.

It’s like asking some guy “make me a project that does X” and then claiming you curated it and the other guy was just a tool.

[–] gordic_sara 2 days ago

hey sooo, not sure if it matters, but I went to art school and have been a designer for 8+ years; so definitely made a lot of human choices here. hope that helps lol!

[–] foltik 2 days ago

It does and I appreciate that. Really don’t mean to discourage your creativity, just explaining why it didn’t sit right with me.

The main thing is the presentation. Unrepresentative AI generated image at the top, AI generated readme, AI prose in every file I opened. It’s hard to tell which decisions were actually yours.

It’s the same sort of feel to me as a novel with an interesting original plot, but written in generic AI prose.

I want to hear your voice, not the AI’s.

[–] q4y2u35uk 2 days ago

I don't doubt there's a human touch, but the point is art school and being a designer are orthogonal to what would have made this project impressive in the past. This project interfaces with deep and partially undocumented macOS internals. A few years ago this project would have been a pet project of a master systems programmer.

I don't think that making software should be gatekept. I suppose it's a bit melancholy that software has to be appreciated differently now.

[–] kinduff 2 days ago

Love what you did. Keep creating with the tools you have. Just like you did in art school. Don't get demotivated nor try to justify in today's mood.

[–] kinduff 2 days ago

That last line rings a bell in how corp works sometimes.