

Excuse my skepticism (it comes with experience), but after reading through AnkiHub’s PR-speak AI slop, I doubt that a company with 40 employees that already uses a monthly subscription and AI is not going to enshittify this project. Did their team contribute anything to the OSS project while they were building a for profit company on top of it?













I’ve just started recently using Claude after being very unimpressed with Copilot, but my current theory is that you should treat everything it writes like a PoC that you found in some obscure github repo. Use it as a reference that you can generate quickly, take out only the good parts, adapt them to your context. It’s harder to delete code than to write it, so it’s easier to just take what you like from its output, rather than try to clean up all the nonsense it generates.
How accurate that is and how useful it is compared to just writing it from scratch varies a lot based on your particular project. You still need a good understanding of the output it produces, otherwise those subtle bugs and low quality adds up. The times it’s the most useful are when it writes a lot of stuff that I would’ve written myself, but I can point to some detail and say “that’s wrong, I’ll write it myself”.