[svnt]

This person appears to have leaned heavily on LLM generation in everything from their comment here, the readme, to even their github profile page. I haven’t reviewed the code.

The codebase and website consist of a handful of commits made over the prior three weekends.

There is no differentiation from the existing library of note-taking apps.

By any measure this is not a thing worthy of attention, and yet here it is. Why?

edit: At least one answer occurs to me: we have lowered the bar to app creation so far that a person can now create and market an app faster than they can evaluate and understand the existing options.

We are a website away from Let Me Google That For You evolving into LM Develop TFY.

[bort-simpson]

> we have lowered the bar to app creation so far that a person can now create and market an app faster than they can evaluate and understand the existing options

I don’t understand the unnecessary gate keeping here. There is no imaginary bar that someone should hit before sharing something they created. Who cares how it was made? If someone made something and it’s gets attention, that’s already enough merit for the post itself.

Sharing things people create should always be encouraged. If something isn’t “worthy” of your made-up standards, then move on. There’s really no reason to bring someone down for it.

[svnt]

> Sharing things people create

That’s the thing though, they didn’t even create the comment they posted here.

If this was a small project communicated honestly then great, I’m all for it.

My edit was about a structural insight, with parallels we have already seen play out in the search space: with no standards for sharing things, or at least for presenting things, an inevitable floating mass of attention-splintering garbage results.

[bemusedthrow75]

The person in question has a name that hints at the possibility that English is his second language.

The code in question is small but neat and interesting (it’s a Vue 3/Electron app which is a relatively unusual combination); it was not I suspect written with much help from an LLM.

[svnt]

That’s a good point I hadn’t considered. What if you can code but can’t speak English well.

[bemusedthrow75]

It is the one unambiguous strength of an LLM, I think.

It's kind of core to its being. It's very difficult indeed to get ChatGPT to write ungrammatical english even deliberately. I've tried several times.

[paddim8]

Well that's a bit rude. Calm down

[kchnkrml]

It may be rude (or not?), but it captures the problems quite well, so...