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by r00t- 59 days ago
This was definitely vibe coded, even the landing page.
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Oh for sure. Just look at the "Author" page. It says he started in March 2026 on this. Which means last month he pointed Claude to the Notepad++ repo and said "make a native port of this to macOS".
You can simply look at the GitHub repo where most of the commits say $Name and Claude
that's lazy commentary. prove it. and prove why that matters in this specific context. If you're going to shit on someone's work, have a good reason.
Proof: https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-m...

Every single commit says ‘and claude’

That is not necessarily proof.

Sometimes I am too lazy to think of a good commit message, so I have a custom command that tells the assistant to do this:

Commit umstaged changes with a nice clean message summary and no full message.

By default, Claude Code co-signs those commits (which I do not like at all as a default).

The proof is good enough though.

Even if the code was written by author, not bothering to remove co-signed-by part from the commit message (assuming author did indeed wrote it by himself) let alone not writing their own commit message is an indication of negligence to me

Proof no, but you can safely apply occams razor here.