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It does and I appreciate that. Really don’t mean to discourage your creativity, just explaining why it didn’t sit right with me.

The main thing is the presentation. Unrepresentative AI generated image at the top, AI generated readme, AI prose in every file I opened. It’s hard to tell which decisions were actually yours.

It’s the same sort of feel to me as a novel with an interesting original plot, but written in generic AI prose.

I want to hear your voice, not the AI’s.

I don't doubt there's a human touch, but the point is art school and being a designer are orthogonal to what would have made this project impressive in the past. This project interfaces with deep and partially undocumented macOS internals. A few years ago this project would have been a pet project of a master systems programmer.

I don't think that making software should be gatekept. I suppose it's a bit melancholy that software has to be appreciated differently now.

Love what you did. Keep creating with the tools you have. Just like you did in art school. Don't get demotivated nor try to justify in today's mood.