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Yes, the terrible urge people have to publish the results of their vibecoding is the problem - it’s why itch.io and steam and GitHub are overflowing with slop projects.

I love seeing that someone built a thing like this! It’s a fun idea, and it is inspiring to see what kind of thing it’s possible to code up with AI assistance!

But be honest, it’s not ship-ready. You aren’t going to handle bug reports and maintenance long term - it’s a toy you built that you’ll bore of and cast aside in a few weeks. You don’t want other people installing it and using it and bugging you to modify it.

Share that you did it. Share what it looks like. Share some of the story of how you prompted it into existence. But don’t publish it as if the result is some sort of product.

LLM-generated or not, I think anybody should be free to publish source code that they have no plans to maintain, although it would be better if clearly stated. I have found great value in abandoned repositories over the years.
All fair points, this was a completely new experience for me. I’m a product designer and wanted to see if Claude/Codex could help me make this real; I posted about it on X (https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219?a=sJ1QQB...), and so many ppl liked it that I just wanted to open-source it immediately. It’s not a polished product, but I use it every day and I’m still fixing things when I can. And it made a lot of people happy + I met so many amazing people because of it!
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Why not? It's being given away for free! If you don't want to play with it, don't! The original GPL from 1989 states: Under the GNU General Public License (GPL), software is provided "as is" without any warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.

Are you saying no one is allowed to say anything unless it's a commercial product at which point it's advertising and we don't like that either so we're not allowed to say anything? I had this idea and built a thing. Yeah AI built it vs the before times. Sure, if it's shit, tear it down for the parts where it's being shit. Don't tear it down just because it comes from AI. We went from a world of software paucity to a world of software abundance.

Did I need to write a TUI to access HN via a terminal? No! But I did with the help of AI and I'm not going to force my program, nitpick, down anyone's throat but so what if it at the level of "I made this finger paint drawing and I want mommy and daddy to put it on the fridge" like I'm 5 years old. I'm having fun and you can try and shit on that all you want, but you aren't taking that away from me.

It is a product. It already works. Stop crying about people sharing stuff.