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by mtlynch 539 days ago
This seems AI-generated. Both the project itself and the HN intro sound fishy.

It seems to be a UI for creating symlinks on Windows?

I'm not clear on what problem that solves. What's a situation where you need to move a file that another program depends on for the sake of organization? I can imagine organizing my photos or music, but this makes it sound like I'm going to organize random DLLs in system32.

One of the advertised features is " Error Prevention: Smart validation and error handling." I checked the wiki for more information, and found this:

>Error Prevention

>Validates operations before execution

>Checks for:

>Write permissions

>Disk space

>Existing files

>Valid paths

That seems highly AI-generated. If not, it sounds like it's needlessly reimplementing a lot of what the OS already does automatically.

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I think it's ok if e.g. people with a different first language than English use LLMs as some sort of "smart spellchecker".

That the software does some error handling while performing it's goal is not a red flag?

It's not a red flag that the program does error handling. It's a red flag that the docs advertise standard filesystem error conditions as a flagship feature of this app.
And? Error handling mention makes the software AI generated ?
I am the developer of this software and I myself re implemented those features . And I wanted to mention those in wiki too . I did use AI to write wiki for my program , as a sole developer I have better things to watch out than writing wiki. Thank you