I built a MAL clone using AI, nearly 700 commits of AI. Obviously I was responsible for the quality of the output and reviewing and testing that it all works as expected, and leading it in the right direction when going down the wrong path, but it wrote all of the code for me.

There are other MAL clones out there, but none of them do everything I wanted, so that’s why I built my own project. It started off as an inside joke with a friend, and eventually materialized as an actual production-ready project. It’s limited more by design of the fact that it relies on database imports and delta edits rather than the fact that it was written by AI, because that’s just the nature of how data for these types of things tend to work.

And if the maintainer doesn’t agree to merge your changes, what to you do then?

You have to build your own project, where you get to decide what gets added and what doesn’t.

I don’t really agree, I think that’s kind of a problem with approaching it. I’ve built some pretty large projects with AI, but the thing is, you have to approach it the same way you should be approaching larger projects to begin with - you need to break it down into smaller steps/parts.

You don’t tell it “build me an entire project that does X, Y, Z, and A, B, C”, you have to tackle it one part at a time.

Okay, but we’re talking non-commercial and commercial websites alike both requiring photo ID.

That’s something new, that hasn’t happened before.

Why do you bother saying this? You really think 10, 15 years ago sites required you to upload photo ID? Did you even use the Internet back then?

I don’t live in USA so my knowledge of USA is limited, but isn’t that the previous NYC mayor and not the current NYC mayor?