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tl;dr: a person from the team decided to go all-in on AI slop.

Fortunately, the only resources affected are the .co.uk website and the Youtube channel, the firmware is still in the hands of the core developer team.

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I was under the impression that meshcore was always vibe coded... people are just noticing this now?

The firmware certainly isn't vibe coded. A heavy amount of the third party tooling however is.

Definitely not, the design was quite carefully made to avoid the pitfalls of Meshtastic. The developers documented quite a lot of their early work. It really didn't feel like a vibe-coded type of environment.

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