I got into software in a time where you would get sent to a mental institution when spotted using emojis in a code base. Times have changed.. I use emojis regularly because they help me organize context more visually. Code has now many emojis to keep me happy.

This code was written in pure vibe-coding style — mostly for fun. I've got about 10 years of experience in IT, and even I fully agree: a 1000-line main file like this one probably deserves to be locked away in a secure facility.

But hey — if it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.

Always depends on the cost of failure I suppose.

The readme is the typical AI verbal diarrhoea of so many words saying so little it hurts. You should ask it to be a bit more concise.

As a separate comment, would it not be better to ask for your plan on first run and setup a config file to remember it? With a note how to change it. Rather than rely on cmd line variables?

Also, shouldn't it be able to pick up the timezone from the local computer? Why would it "default" to a fixed timezone of poland?

> looks so unprofessional and makes me worry that a project was vibe -coded in the sense that the AI was possibly not babysat to the extent I think they should. That's just me, though

The irony of comments like this on software designed entirely for ai coding...

AI coding where the human stays in control and reads and confirms code is totally different from vibe coding where you don't read code and just prompt until it sort of works.

I completely agree. Andrej's definition was pretty explicit and in my experience it is two separate worlds of AI use.

Looks so unprofessional, lol, says the guy wanting to use a free app, this isn't a microsoft made app lol it's a guy making a github app for free the audacity people have these days to shit on peoples project for 0 reason

It strikes me as very much a current aesthetic in younger companies or smaller startups, maybe highly influenced by Notion. No one makes a list or page or calendar invite in my current company without choosing an emoji for it.

It was cool until 2022. Then LLMs started injecting these emoji everywhere and it became the chief marker for code/doc smell.

It never caught on but I always liked setting the jumbo header images on Notion docs to creepy, unsettling pictures from Unsplash.

Need to write a document about converting a Rust project to Typescript? A picture of an abandoned warehouse full of expressionless baby doll heads fits perfectly.

My goto for AI generated PR descriptions and README is this addition to the prompt: tight, no purple prose, no emojis.

That turns thrse meandering emoji fests into suitable documentation. YMMV

if you actually look at the code, it's a single 400 line python file that just wraps https://github.com/ryoppippi/ccusage, so it's possible

Yeah I noticed that too, it’s a bit crazy to me that stuff like this is getting upvotes and traction. It feels like it was vibe-coded in one-shot style without perhaps even reading any bit of the code. A bunch of hardcoded values, a `sleep(3)`, bunch of other antipatterns.

Up until recently I tended to “trust” github repos a bit more, now I feel like I need to have my guard up so I don’t fall into a trap of using something like this. Funnily enough a good first metric for me now is # of emojis in the readme - the more emojis the more likely you should stay away from it

This code was written in pure vibe-coding style — mostly for fun. I've got about 10 years of experience in IT, and even I fully agree: a 1000-line main file like this one probably deserves to be locked away in a secure facility. But hey — if it's stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.