Because they wanted to and Claude didn't tell them not to. Why even ask questions like this at this point.

In the age of LLMs I think we are going to see a Cambrian explosion of software.

Me personally, I’m writing tools for myself wouldn’t have bothered with before due the the time investment needed.

The prolific inventor’s dilemma. But to be fair developers have been making whatever they want since the beginning. Sometimes there doesn’t have to be a ‘why?’.

Haha this. I understand the appeal of "but I can probably roll my own" and "Oh that's a good idea, let's jump into coding" but pre-vibe bots, the effort required would make folks stop and think before jumping into it - is it really a good idea? should I do it just because I can? what problem is it really solving? Who will use this? etc.