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Video from a few years ago that might offer some background/context.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVKeKpNQto

The channel has a few videos on it, not watched any other than this introductory one but some of the titles look interesting.

Also the introduction video above states an initial requirement of 'every PR must have a video' but it looks like that got dropped a while ago.

Seems to have commits from 2023 and a copyright notice claiming "from 2015-present", so at least parts of it likely predate vibe coding.

Is there something that gives it that impression? Didn't look at it too hard, but the readme tells a story of focused passion for the language, and programming in general. Vibe documented?

Readme full of emojis.

And grammatical errors. That Readme is obviously not LLM-generated. Come on.

You know why LLM text is full of emojis?

drumroll

Because people have been using a lot of emojis before LLMs in text already, and LLMs have been trained on those texts.

This whole "You have emojis in your text, it's LLM!"-trope got boring really fast. Amazing to see (and to think of the implications of) so many people apparently being in emoji-free social bubbles before this, though.

I don’t remember seeing technical documentation packed full of emojis until LLMs.

Guess you haven't been around much on GitHub before LLMs.