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It’s not really “closed‑source” — the code is source‑available on Gumroad. GitHub here is more of a landing page / documentation than a code host. The tool itself is tiny and console‑based, but the whole point of this project is the distribution experiment. I’m trying PWYW 0$+ to learn how small tools can be shared, not to monetize a Pomodoro timer.
Well, you asked for our opinions, that was mine.
That still looks like closed source though, and these days folks view such things with suspicion, especially for small projects that are generally foss. There's a lot of people unwilling to run stuff they view as heavily AI authored, or potentially malicious, and not having the source out front to look at is going to put some folk off.
But as I say, it's just my opinion. Hope it works out for you.
Just to understand you better — what counts as ‘AI‑authored’ for you?
Ah, so it is. Now I understand why you're not putting the code up front on the github project page for everyone to see.
For me, that means something where the code is obviously AI authored.
I'm not anti-AI, I use it all the time when coding. But when the human responsible for that code, and there must always be one, doesn't understand every single line of that code and why it's there, then it's unwise to use that code. LLMs can churn out perfectly good code within their current scope, but they cannot (yet) produce cohesive and maintainable code that doesn't grow out of scope. And when an experienced coder sits down and reviews that code, there will be a high WTF/minute ratio.