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Vibe coding pro tip: do not let the AI write the copy on your front page.

I’m not paying a dime for something that reads like slop. I’m assuming the engineering is to the same standards.

Regardless of the AI-tells on the homepage, if you check out the git repository, their most recent commits all happened within minutes of each other:

https://github.com/A-SIDE-Social/aside/commits/main/

- 8:14am - 8:15am - 8:36am - 8:37am

Not a red flag in and of itself, but considering the scope of each commit, my money is on _heavy_ vibe coding.

Yes, exactly! If it reads that it took you 10 minutes to code then I'm not paying shit

There's a little box on there that says "No AI" which is pretty much meaningless. It implies it was written without AI but maybe it just means the product doesn't ship with an LLM?

Either way, it's a no from me.

I don’t know — the proof’s in the pudding but I’m not buying a slice to find out.

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