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Comment on: Show HN: I built a 2-min quiz that shows you how bad you are at estimating

by EForEndeavour
Posted: Apr 6, 2026
Apologies if this is off-topic, but having spent more time than I'd like to admit having to create and edit webapps that emerged entirely out of Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc. with minimal to no direct code-writing by their human subscribers, this website has strong AI smells:- Inter font- all caps section headers- Lucide icons- em dashes, of course the em dashes- bubble status badges (of course with all-caps "IN PROGRESS" and "COMING SOON" that mean the same thing)- Uncited claims like "Most founders are overconfident in the 70-90% range" and "Most people score between 0.20 and 0.30"- No less than FOUR blog articles all published April 4None of these points is by any means a dealbreaker. And after all, I suppose a product should be judged on its merits and the value it delivers to its users, not on the tools used to create it. But together, the frontend bears the unmistakeable generative AI "smell" that telegraphs that the human(s) directing the tools building this app might be optimizing for speed over rigor and quality (further supported by the volunteer QA/QC happening in the comments), and may only be as good and reliable as the uncritically accepted outputs of a $20/month coding assistant.
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