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nickserv 9 hours ago

Wow, so much negativity, when the app scores really high on things that are supposed to be important here:

* Desktop first, no electron crap

* Open source and free

* Linux first

* Subjective, but to me it looks clean

If getting all that means using some AI vibe code, that's fine by me. Who isn't these days anyway? (Be honest!)

Anyway I hope the project is successful, more choice and competition in Matrix clients is a good thing.

Now if only they can fix video calls...

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Arcuru 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's because they:

1. Forked an existing app that has all the features you listed.

2. Admit they don't really know the language and tech it uses.

3. Said upstream was too slow, but I don't see any(?) PRs from them on upstream besides the 2 that they list in the post. Their fork appears to have an extra 3,000 commits.

I'm not super against them doing this, but it's pretty easy to see why people don't like it. Hell, this is the same group that upgraded one of my side-projects from a few years ago and improved it into their 'baibot' matrix bot, so I wish them all the best. I like people making money from OSS, more power to them.

	▲	spantaleev 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Your Rust-based AI chatbot (https://github.com/arcuru/chaz) was an inspiration! It made me think: we don't have to suffer the brokenness of the old bot (https://github.com/matrixgpt/matrix-chatgpt-bot) anymore. Still, I wanted something more thread-based and more powerful than what you had built.. and I wanted a playground to learn some Rust. To clarify for anyone that might get confused: baibot (https://github.com/etkecc/baibot) is not based on any of the chaz code, nor on the matrix-chatgpt-bot code. It's completely manually-built / independently-built (in Rust), by me, over multiple months of unpaid FOSS work.

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blurbleblurble 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People are afraid and taking it out on others

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invalidSyntax 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Vibe coding isn't bad. It's those people who do all there coding(?) with it and post it like it's there creation is the problem.

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rolymath 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This applies to all software. You didn't make the monitor your app is being displayed on. Stop taking credit for the compiler that made your code runnable, etc.

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LoganDark 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.

	▲	nullsanity 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
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