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by EForEndeavour 70 days ago
Apologies if this is off-topic, but having spent more time than I'd like to admit having to create and edit webapps that emerged entirely out of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc. with minimal to no direct code-writing by their human subscribers, this website has strong AI smells:

- Inter font

- all caps section headers

- Lucide icons

- em dashes, of course the em dashes

- bubble status badges (of course with all-caps "IN PROGRESS" and "COMING SOON" that mean the same thing)

- Uncited claims like "Most founders are overconfident in the 70-90% range" and "Most people score between 0.20 and 0.30"

- No less than FOUR blog articles all published April 4

None of these points is by any means a dealbreaker. And after all, I suppose a product should be judged on its merits and the value it delivers to its users, not on the tools used to create it. But together, the frontend bears the unmistakeable generative AI "smell" that telegraphs that the human(s) directing the tools building this app might be optimizing for speed over rigor and quality (further supported by the volunteer QA/QC happening in the comments), and may only be as good and reliable as the uncritically accepted outputs of a $20/month coding assistant.

1 comments

That's all true. I'm a solo founder and have been using Claude heavily to build this. It definitely shows in many places, and I'll make sure to clean those up. I did not expect to get this many visits from a show HN (almost at 1600 quiz takers from the last few hours alone). The core math is sound, but I agree the presentation needs more care. Appreciate the honest feedback!