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How about releasing your own source code? It is a beautiful site, love the UX as well as functionality.

It screams vibe coding. This is the anthropic look. Just ask Claude and give it a screenshot.

Of course I expect it is vibe coding. It would be insane to code anything by hand these days. But that doesn't mean there is no creative input by the author here.

>> It would be insane to code anything by hand these days.

I strongly disagree, but it made me chuckle a bit, thinking about labeling software as "handmade" or marketing software house as "artisanal".

Depending on your standards and what company is making it you could even have “cruelty free.”

Depends on what you’re building and whether it’s recreational or not. Complex architecture vs a ui analysis tool, for example. For a ui analysis tool, the only reason you code by hand is for the joy of coding by hand. Even though you can drive a car or fly in a plane there are times to walk or ride a bike still.

Our organic artisanal code is written by free-range developers

"free-range" means fully remote, right?

There's a lot of errors you can miss by coding by hand, even as a seasoned developer. Try taking Claude Code, point it at your repo, and ask it to find bugs. I bet it will.

Claude is actually a crazy good vuln researcher. If you use it that way, your code might just be more secure than written purely by hand.

Sure, just like drug-sniffing dogs. Whether they've actually found something or are just pleasing the operator is another story.

You well on the path to AI-fueled psychosis if you genuinely believe this.

I genuinely believe this. Even if you're inventing a new algorithm it is better to describe the algorithm in English and have AI do the implementation.

At least it's more productive than AI Derangement Syndrome.

Vibe coding is also why this was released hours after leak instead of days/weeks.

Must everything be artisanal for some people? </s>

Yes, it is vibecoded, had to get it like in 10-15 minutes. I did not know how to write a piece of code 4-5 months back.

As a cynical modern eng look for landing page skills

Guess what? People have ZERO reason to Open Source anything now.

Why would you think that?

I'm a committed open source dev and I've flipped my own switch from "default public" to "default private".

Because nobody wants their shit stolen by some punk.

This said Jeavon's Paradox will likely mean far more code is open sourced simply due to how much code will get written in total.

We should be applauding the promotion of science and useful arts that genAI is fueling.

But egos are involved.

One reason, beside basic altruism, is so you can put the projects on your resume. This is especially helpful if the project does very well or gets lots of stars.

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