alt Hacker NewsNot sure why you are downvoted here.
'A-Lot' of side projects, hobby projects, etc.. are all using AI tools now. Also for marketing, every sales/marketing firm is using AI. So why critisize this guy inparticular.
AI is pervasive, the train has left the station. So that is not a reason to criticize this project. There might be other reasons, I'm not sure, but not that an AI was used.
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It's really a weird world now.
I do think the author is doing a disservice to themselves by writing the post and comments using LLM, even if the code is mostly agent built. People can tell right away, all the LLM shibboleths are there... it feels cheap. Just write naturally and then Google translate, don't let the LLM speak on your behalf.
What's going to distinguish projects that are built this way is the ability to explain, document, support, and maintain said projects over the long term. That will be the crucible. Gone are the days of "build it and they will come", and I feel a bit sad about that.
It's so easy to let the code grow under you beyond what you have the capacity to do the above for.
I've got the same thing going on. Eschewing paid work and grinding 16, 17 hours a day boiling the sea to build the whole universe from scratch (also a database, but of a different sort than this project) integrating all my favourite DB research papers and ideas that I've accumulated over the last 30 years. Outperforms postgres 2-4x or more, has a battery of correctness tests, Lean proofs, benchmarks, etc. etc.
But frankly I'd be nervous to share. Especially here. I don't even know where it ends up. Not least because if I'm doing it, so are 50 other people, probably.
Because "Yeah, fair pushback" is AI smell. Either everything this person does is passed through an AI from code to blogs to even their HN comments and submissions; or they use AI so much they're starting to talk like it colloquially. Either way no one has time for that.