I see that you added a note at the top about using LLMs. Thank you. :) I feel much better about this project now, and if you post it again, I hope you do get a much better response.

You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t disclose that it was built with AI, then you got defensive when you got called out on it. You can think we all hate AI all you want, but what we really hate is dishonesty.

Your commits don’t list Claude as an author, they list you. But you didn’t actually write those commits. You claim copyright ownership over this codebase, too. Maybe you’re unaware, but you can’t actually copyright something that was AI generated. At best, you own copyrights to some of the code.

Congratulations on being a dev for four years before AI. Are you really willing to ruin your reputation now by not being truthful about where the code in your codebase came from?

Also, you couldn’t even delete the files that Claude left in there yourself. What possible indication do I have that you would work on this project without Claude there to do everything for you?

I feel like you don’t understand why this is important.

You generated the app using subsidized AI. You probably don’t have the hardware to run frontier models on your own, so you’re probably using Claude, which is why I say it’s subsidized. Anthropic doesn’t charge you the real cost of running the AI, let alone enough to actually make a profit off your use of it. That’s fine for now, because they’re swimming in VC money. They can afford to get you hooked by subsidizing your use.

What happens when the VC money dries up? Well, Anthropic is going to have to charge you enough to make a profit. That’s probably going to mean that what costs you $20 today is going to cost you at least $200 then. Are you willing to pay ten times what you’re paying now to have Claude work on this app for you? If you are, then no problem. But if you aren’t, that means you’re probably going to abandon this project. I doubt you want to clean up this code base and work on it without the AI.

If you tell me that this is AI generated, I’m going to know that the risk that you’ll abandon it is much higher than if you are working on it yourself. So, I’m going to be able to make a much better risk assessment about pouring my time, resources, and data into using it. That’s why it’s important. Yeah, it sucks that you’ll get way less adoption telling people the truth, but if growing your users is more important to you than being honest, I wouldn’t want to use your product even if you did write it yourself.

Yeah man, sure.

Edit: this too.

You really should disclose that it’s AI generated.