You’re right that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but when the only thing we know about this person is their commit history on this account, we can’t really make any positive assumptions beyond the story that data tells.

You as well. For what it’s worth, I do appreciate your points about language and having grace for strangers, and will try to keep them in mind moving forward.

I get what you’re saying and agree with you that there tends to be an elitist slant within this community, but that courtesy is a two-way street. I don’t think it’s that much to ask that people to put in the bare minimum to respect the spaces they enter without having to be cajoled to do so by others, and in turn, I do my best to respect the communities I visit both online and offline.

I actually rescinded my downvote after they added the tag because they were following the rules at that point, in spite of my misgivings about the project.

If I read the page correctly, the project was launched in the last couple months. I’m not seeing many reviews or demonstrations online yet, but I also didn’t look very hard.

I personally don’t have any interest in mostly vibe-coded projects and won’t be trying it.

That said, I’d be curious to hear from anyone who has tried it. It’s certainly welcome to see open-source competitors popping up for AEC software.

Elsewhere in this thread, I can’t seem to get the link on my phone:

Rulues was not readed, but i do know most people do not want AI code. So i did know what the issue you point just from your comment

I will not hold post about great FOSS project becuse of AI code.

Thanks.

They admitted that they chose not to read the community rules and appear to have assumed that they were not allowed to post about AI projects, yet chose to post anyway.

Also, translation tools are widely available on the Internet to the extent that they’re built into most browsers at this point. While they’re obviously not as good as actually being fluent, they work fine for getting the point across. I’ve used them to read non-English sites with success, even if I maybe missed some of the subtleties of the original text.

It would be far less frustrating if they had at least attempted to read the rules and made a mistake in trying to follow them.

To quote from another thread about this program:

Claude directly has over 1100000 lines of direct code contribution. It has pretty much the same amount of code committed directly as the creator has.

His entire coding history before Claude consisted of changing readmes or searching and replacing project name text or modifying a dead link to his own link.

Suddenly in 4 months, without ever producing actual code before, he becomes a very competent coder enough to tackle mCAD, a notoriously difficult coding task that takes many many years with teams to make meaningful progress on?

That is vibe coding.

And his co-contributer “gianlucafiore” is exactly the same story. Has literally only made issues until LLM coding got released and then late 2025 (December) switched to making commits that he badly copied from an LLM such that some of the commits are literally one full line (as direct in-file working of the LLM wasn’t as accessible then)

That is vibe coding.

So the top 3 contributes are

1. An LLM
2. Someone that only has committed any code via an LLM
3. Someone who has only made issues before beginning with an LLM and submits clearly generated code

There is likely no human-made code in the entire project besides changing a couple links.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/27294909

If a program written almost entirely by Claude under somebody who has not previously demonstrated any actual competency in this domain isn’t vibe coding, I really don’t know what is.

Probably because it’s not a self hosting project, and it also appears to be almost entirely vibe coded. When asked about the former, OP also claimed they didn’t read or care about the community rules, though it does appear they’ve since added the ai tag.

Wow, never knew that canvas was open source and self-hostable. My high school and undergrad both used canvas

Would love your feedback — what’s missing?

You’re completely missing any regard for this community’s rules and conventions. Firstly, this is a SELF-hosting community, not a bookmark-someone’s-website community. Secondly, you are violating the community engagement and AI disclosure rules. The smallest amount of due diligence before blasting your slop out is not a lot to ask.

The fact that you couldn’t be bothered with that means I will certainly never trust you or a program associated with you to handle my financials.

Shit, I wouldn’t trust you to pour water out of a boot if the instructions were written on the sole.