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    10 months ago

    There was a human reply at the end:

    I’ve just taken all the pkg pages down. pkgx is about running pkgs, we put up the pkg pages as a bonus for our users to help them. We chose AI generation to give us more time to work on the tool because that’s what we care about.

    They don’t matter to our mission and honestly we’re a little confused about this reaction. We respect your opinions and are sorry we upset so many by using AI.

    Can’t say I hugely love that reaction from the dev

















  • I set out to make something that filled a specific need of mine but in a way that it would be easy to package up as a tool for other people meaning it was clean and well documented. Time spent is a little difficult as the majority of the work was research for a separate project that gave me the idea for this one. It was in the realm of weeks to build the end product and days to make their requested adjustments though. I believe the sale price was around $500 - $800. It also lead to doing other work for them in the same area which I think is the biggest gain when doing something like this