Posted by thepoet 5 hours ago
Jesus christ folks. Is it really a big effort to have a human proofread the first paragraph in your product launch?
I can simulate it by staying on the "Library" tab, but it tends to forget halfway frequently.
It is not because you can install and run apps that you have to.
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Everyone already has at least one multitool, the smartphone. Most also have a tablet and/or a laptop. While this project looks like a cool hack, I don't see much practical use for another multitool with a weak CPU, laggy screen, and poor input.
If your software is mostly written by the slop machine, fine. I don't have to be upset about it unless I think about contributing and then notice the uncanny nature of the source code. But a website and a README is directly user facing and it is a major disservice, and in my opinion, lack of respect, to generate your website copy with an LLM.
"These are photographs of the device, not simulator captures" is the kind of total throwaway verbiage that a human would never even pause to consider writing because it "clarifies" something that in the totality of context is beyond obvious. It makes the writing more fatiguing to read, and creates a terrible first impression for a project.
much prefer ai assisted development than someone who does it by hand, prone to errors and lacking in features.
You prefer AI-assisted development with errors and lacking features rather than something done by hand with errors and lacking features?
https://github.com/Podginator/KoboOmnivoreConverter
It took a lot of messing around trying to figure out how nickel fit together. This is much more … impressive.