im going to say this here just to vent it out once:
some part of me sinks into depression when vibe coders say "I" turned/did/made something. why does this bother me? smart managers i work with who actually build things as hobbies and used to build apps say this all the time so its not like it indicates someone is phony, it just really catches on my brain when i hear it
My guess? It's like claiming credit for something someone else did.
It would be like me commissioning a painting and then claiming I painted it.
They sat on a project since 2012 and, in my cynical view, didn’t want to finish it because then they’d stop being “the guys translating Princess Crown”, and this section of the hacker scene seem to have some asinine unspoken “claim” courtesy, where you don’t make competing projects, so they could own the claim and not actually put the effort into finishing. To my knowledge the new dev didn’t use LLMs either, so that wasn’t even a force multiplier in this respect.