"Please don't give me a present on my birthday. Anyone with a credit card could get me the same thing if you hand them the url."

i'm personally okay receiving presents on my birthday even if they were purchased from a store on the internet, and i'm okay receiving software presents on github.com even if they were purchased from a store on the internet.

I'm just so tired of these lazy, worthless comments about any AI-written software.

Look, I've been writing open source software for 20+ years, and after getting seriously burned out by it, I picked it up again with Claude (proof: https://github.com/jleclanche)

I can tell you a few things from that:

1. I'm writing better software than before, because AI is less lazy than I am. It's not necessarily always smarter, but writing correct software has gotten so stupidly cheap that it doesn't make sense not to do things right... so when you tell AI to do things correctly, it tends to know what you're talking about.

2. I'm more curious than before, because AI gives me time to explore many paths, very fast. A project like this one, like someone else said elsewhere in the comments, is more about the journey than the destination.

There is no "write me an X11 server but do it in rust and post on hn" prompt that does the thing. There's a journey of building, learning, understanding.

I'm not saying the resulting software is particularly valuable, but the journey is. This is HN, and you're shitting on someone who is using the most powerful pieces of technology we've achieved to go on a journey of discovery of X11 internals for the past 2 months. It's just shameful.

And yeah, if I were the author, I'd run claude over all the transcripts and extract a story with what's been taught and learned throughout. But I'm not the author. Just someone enjoying living in absolute science fiction.