I make a mod manager for The Sims. It's free and open source. No ads, and I don't make a cent from it. I work on it after my actual job. Every time it gets posted somewhere, the same thing happens. Within the hour there's a thread where people have already decided a machine wrote it. I wrote a whole post about AI last week. Where I use it, where I refuse to, and why vibe coding is a terrible idea for a tool that moves your files around. It's a few posts down from this one. Not one person who has called me dishonest has read it. The vicious DMs I can shrug off. It's the polite ones I keep re-reading. "This looks amazing, but I uninstalled it because I don't trust the dev." There's nothing I can say back to that, and no version of the app fixes it. I answer bug reports at midnight from people who are lovely. Then I open my inbox in the morning and there's a list of strangers telling me what kind of person I am. I'm not asking anyone to trust me. If you don't want it on your machine, don't install it. That's completely fine and I mean it. But there's a difference between not installing something and coming to my inbox to tell me I'm a fraud. I don't know how long I keep doing this. That isn't a threat and I'm not taking anything down tonight. The app works and it'll keep working, and the next update is already half written. I just didn't want to keep pretending this part is fine.
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