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The concern with a lot of projects that look largely AI made isn't that the current state works, but that this current state might be all that ever happens so people who try to use it end up relying on a dead project unless they maintain it themselves.

[refusing to reword the "it is not X, it is Y" - I'm not an LLM but I don't care that much if you think I am!]

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I understand and appreciate the concern. We've been working on Gea Stack for about a year now. Started with https://geajs.com, then decided to enlarge the capabilities. The current capabilities have been under development for the past 6 months. We are in the process of forming a new company around Gea, and already collaborating with multiple embedded device vendors, development partners and customers who are interested in the technology.

There's a broader philosophy of "firmware freedom" that we want to bring to the world. Practically, you should buy hardware for what it is, and run your own firmware on it. E-book readers and unlocked bootloaders in the Android world is doing a pretty good job at this, so we want to contribute to this movement by making the development of such solutions dead simple, both for humans and AI. Incidentally, TypeScript, JSX, and CSS happen to be the languages AI knows best.

So, it's an ambitious project with a real team behind it, with commercialization on the horizon.

You are getting good advice here; if you don't go beyond the default AI aesthetics, your implicit communication will be that this is low-effort AI-slop. Regardless of your true effort.

Much appreciated. There's a lot to work on, and we initially chose to spend a bulk of our effort on the engineering work itself as it's the moat and the foundation to everything else. Everything else we can fix in time.

Having said that, I personally designed the logo and visual aesthetic and it serves a purpose. We believe in firmware freedom and hardware hackability, just like it was the norm in 70s and 80s. Of course it could have been executed better, but the current form is a specific choice after many iterations and certainly not low-effort. Too bad it reminds people of AI-slop, for an older generation it reminds other things.

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