I created a web browser using Claude, everybody hates it

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I created a web browser, Northstar web browser, using Claude, Gemini and Chatgpt Codex, everybody hates it, insults me personally and calls it AI slop.https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-browserDoes this mean that the AI coding services are a failure? Claude is a failure?

CM30 · Accepted Answer

For better or worse, the online tech community on many social media sites is heavily against AI generated projects, and will usually be highly negative about them. If you're showing it off on Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, etc, you'll basically get obliterated in the comments and quotes the second you mention AI has been used in any capacity.
Does that mean AI coding services are a failure? Not necessarily, they can help you make things more quickly.
But don't expect people to treat the output of said tools as a serious effort in the field, since the general attitude seems to be "why should I care about anything made using AI if I can just generate the same thing myself?"

mtmail · Answer

That's an exaggeration. 2 minute search and I found positive feedback but I didn't see nobody calling with AI slop. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188235

dabinat · Answer

Well you led with mentioning that you used AI and didn&rsquo;t say what your personal contribution was. If that answer is zero or near zero, it&rsquo;s not valuable as a project. In a world where AI can write code, your job as a human is acting as a quality gate.

linesofcode · Answer

I think this is awesome and you should be proud. The people who are disparaging this because it&rsquo;s AI, just ignore these noisemakers.Keep building

roschdal · Answer

It's also a problem that, although the browser supports most web apis, it can't pass Google botguard checks, because it's an excessively complex, undocumented and secretive botguard system, so people complain the browser doesn't support Google and YouTube.

I created a web browser using Claude, everybody hates it

I created a web browser, Northstar web browser, using Claude, Gemini and Chatgpt Codex, everybody hates it, insults me personally and calls it AI slop.
https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-browser
Does this mean that the AI coding services are a failure? Claude is a failure?

That's an exaggeration. 2 minute search and I found positive feedback but I didn't see nobody calling with AI slop. e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751910 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017314 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49188235

Well you led with mentioning that you used AI and didn’t say what your personal contribution was. If that answer is zero or near zero, it’s not valuable as a project. In a world where AI can write code, your job as a human is acting as a quality gate.

I think this is awesome and you should be proud. The people who are disparaging this because it’s AI, just ignore these noisemakers.
Keep building

It's also a problem that, although the browser supports most web apis, it can't pass Google botguard checks, because it's an excessively complex, undocumented and secretive botguard system, so people complain the browser doesn't support Google and YouTube.