[amrocha]

I deliberately asked for amazing open source projects. I’ve yet to see a single AI coded project i would use.

Keep licking those boots.

[simonw]

Here are a few of mine from the past month - for all of them 90%+ of the code written by Claude Code:

- https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-history-json

- https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-ast

- https://github.com/simonw/showboat - 292 stars

- https://github.com/simonw/datasette-showboat

- https://github.com/simonw/rodney - 290 stars and 4 contributors who aren't me or Claude

- https://github.com/simonw/chartroom

Noting the star counts here because they are a very loose indication that someone other than me has found them useful.

[LunaSea]

I quickly read through the `sqlite-history-json` project and it's only a few hundred lines of code and the code doesn't use transactions which means that it can fail and leave the state of the code and database in an inconsistent state.

[amrocha]

Props for your work on these but they’re toys mate. These are things you built for yourself that other people happened to find useful. That’s great! I’m not shitting on that, but it doesn’t really convince me that AI coding really is this amazing productivity booster in all cases. It’s good for small greenfield projects, I’ll admit that.

[DiggyJohnson]

You could have easily made the same point and just not included the last sentence. Guidelines an all that

[entrox]

I feel different: the last line is very important in this context, since it communicates the underlying thoughts and values of the poster.

Asking for "amazing" open source projects in this case is not asking out of genuine curiosity or want for debate, it is a rhetorical question asked out of frustration at the general trajectory of AI and who profits off of it -- namely the boot-wearers.