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All fair points, this was a completely new experience for me. I’m a product designer and wanted to see if Claude/Codex could help me make this real; I posted about it on X (https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219?a=sJ1QQB...), and so many ppl liked it that I just wanted to open-source it immediately. It’s not a polished product, but I use it every day and I’m still fixing things when I can. And it made a lot of people happy + I met so many amazing people because of it!
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They're fair points for platforms for distribution of products like Itch.io and Steam, but they don't apply here at all! You made a fantastic project and shared it with the world on a platform meant to share source code . This is now an artifact that countless others can use to spin off their own cool ideas and let their own creativity take form.

If someone uses this and expects maintenance, I'd say that's just entitlement on their part. Github is the perfect place for cool ideas like this even if it ends up being throwaway, and its a gift to the world that you shared it openly.

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Don't feel bad for publishing your code. A lot of people say "just share the prompt" but that assumes that the users have unlimited tokens to throw at replicating random one-off projects, which isn't always the case.
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LLM-generated or not, I think anybody should be free to publish source code that they have no plans to maintain, although it would be better if clearly stated. I have found great value in abandoned repositories over the years.
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Why not? It's being given away for free! If you don't want to play with it, don't! The original GPL from 1989 states: Under the GNU General Public License (GPL), software is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.

Are you saying no one is allowed to say anything unless it's a commercial product at which point it's advertising and we don't like that either so we're not allowed to say anything? I had this idea and built a thing. Yeah AI built it vs the before times. Sure, if it's shit, tear it down for the parts where it's being shit. Don't tear it down just because it comes from AI. We went from a world of software paucity to a world of software abundance.

Did I need to write a TUI to access HN via a terminal? No! But I did with the help of AI and I'm not going to force my program, nitpick, down anyone's throat but so what if it at the level of "I made this finger paint drawing and I want mommy and daddy to put it on the fridge" like I'm 5 years old. I'm having fun and you can try and shit on that all you want, but you aren't taking that away from me.

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It is a product. It already works. Stop crying about people sharing stuff.
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