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I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy. When I read that blurb at the top I was thinking “Bold move, Cotton…”. If you told me you get death threats over it, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.

I’ve vibecoded a number of apps that I haven’t released for about the same reasons you describe. What I have put out have been little helpers with miniscule surface area. But the bigger ones I’ve built and am improving have been tailored to my needs (or for our group) and help immensely. At one time I could have coded them myself (maybe), but I never would have gotten around to it.

What pisses me off the most is when people come down on a FOSS maintainer that uses it to keep up with bugs and security fixes because nobody can be arsed to spend any time helping them, instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.

I mean, I’ve run across badly documented FOSS apps as well, but if I submit a correction, I don’t wrap up my ego in whether they take it or not.

If it’s been open for more than a week or two, I just delete it so it isn’t hanging around my feed. No worries, if that’s how you want to run your project it’s no skin off my nose.

But what kinda dweeb goes off on it in a Reddit post?

Interesting project on the novel writing platform. I’m surprised they did’t use git for the backend sync, it would seem purpose built for something like that.

He specifically goes on to say it’s primarily from dealing with anti-AI backlash in response to his use of Claude to help (solely) maintain the client: github.com/andrewrabert/jellium-desktop/…/609