At first when I saw this I was eager to explore it: there isn't much choice in terms of open source SSH clients for Android. Termius is proprietary, ConnectBot is unmaintained (but recently has had some new activity?) and JuiceSSH was never open source afaik. Currently I am using Termux + openssh but that's not great either (e.g. no FIDO ssh key support).

However upon further inspection I am a little suspicious that AI is used significantly for a few reasons:

Claude has contributed a few commits (but not many)
Some of the markdown files (like VISION.md) read like AI generated text
The way the author replies to issues and PRs also reads like AI generated text, with heavy use of em dashes and bold text unnecessarily
The rate of commits and new features seems rather high for a single person working by themselves

Are my suspicions founded? Even if the author uses AI to generate documentation and reply to issues, I'm not sure about the actual code itself. SSH access is quite a sensitive thing so I'd like to know whether the client I am using is built with AI or not. Would appreciate your thoughts.

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[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml -2 points 2 months ago

and that's a fair criticism, but it doesnt have anything to do with ai or not, but bad knowledge about engineering or coding. i have a family member who has been working as a developer for 20 years, he is now using ai to automate that process, he knows what to tell the machine, he oversees the project, etc, that's the way it's going to be from now on, and it's something that has happened to other industries years before. i've worked as an interpreter, translator and proof reader. do you think i do all by hand? no one does that anymore and i dont see people complaining about translations being "machine written" or whatever. i am doing the work, i check errors, i change, words, etc, the only thing i dont do is literally have to type 500 times words i know the translation of.