Not sure why you are downvoted here.

'A-Lot' of side projects, hobby projects, etc.. are all using AI tools now. Also for marketing, every sales/marketing firm is using AI. So why critisize this guy inparticular.

AI is pervasive, the train has left the station. So that is not a reason to criticize this project. There might be other reasons, I'm not sure, but not that an AI was used.

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ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because "Yeah, fair pushback" is AI smell. Either everything this person does is passed through an AI from code to blogs to even their HN comments and submissions; or they use AI so much they're starting to talk like it colloquially. Either way no one has time for that.

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FrustratedMonky 2 hours ago | parent [-]

"Yeah, fair pushback"

Really hard to tell. Because that used to be a common phrase that real people would use.

So now I have to change my own language in order to not appear like I'm an AI? We are getting in a weird place where Humans have to act/sound increasingly 'odd', to appear not 'perfect' like an AI.

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ModernMech 2 hours ago | parent [-]

It's really not hard to tell. It's the "How do you do fellow kids" of AI-isms. The presence of "fair pushback" and a single em dash reads as 99% AI generated as far as I am concerned.

Yes, if you don't want to sound like you're cargo culting AI, you do have to change the way you talk because people aren't going to care otherwise. At the very least just because it's boring. That's always been the nature of slang and lingo.

	▲	FrustratedMonky an hour ago \| parent [-]
		"not hard to tell" Or, with all of the AI slop, you think you are detecting all AI. And don't realize the stuff that is AI and not noticed. There is a wide variety of tools now, with different degrees of output quality. https://ifunny.co/picture/it-s-been-forever-it-s-been-foreve...

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cmrdporcupine 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's really a weird world now.

I do think the author is doing a disservice to themselves by writing the post and comments using LLM, even if the code is mostly agent built. People can tell right away, all the LLM shibboleths are there... it feels cheap. Just write naturally and then Google translate, don't let the LLM speak on your behalf.

What's going to distinguish projects that are built this way is the ability to explain, document, support, and maintain said projects over the long term. That will be the crucible. Gone are the days of "build it and they will come", and I feel a bit sad about that.

It's so easy to let the code grow under you beyond what you have the capacity to do the above for.

I've got the same thing going on. Eschewing paid work and grinding 16, 17 hours a day boiling the sea to build the whole universe from scratch (also a database, but of a different sort than this project) integrating all my favourite DB research papers and ideas that I've accumulated over the last 30 years. Outperforms postgres 2-4x or more, has a battery of correctness tests, Lean proofs, benchmarks, etc. etc.

But frankly I'd be nervous to share. Especially here. I don't even know where it ends up. Not least because if I'm doing it, so are 50 other people, probably.

	▲	hugocorreia90 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I totally acknowledge that. The only reason for passing my replies through AI was just because it's my first time posting here and opening a side-project of mine publicly. All the engine architecture decisions are mine though and this project came up to solve a real problem I currently have at work with a zero-touch data pipeline leveraging FiveTran, Dagster, dbt and Databricks. This is a data pipeline that servers multiple agencies and data producers who work with data from more than 300 clients and multiple connectors. Rocky essentially was built based on all the time spent awaken at night thinking about all these problems and how could they be addressed differently, considering that dbt is not suiting well this particular use-case. I decided to open Rocky to public for free because of two simple reasons: 1st is that it might help others and I fullfill my ego of having built something other people like and use. 2nd is that I'm the solo maintainer. A project can only get proper traction if more people contributes to it.