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Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by spantaleev »

mrsssnake wrote: post #30
spantaleev wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a FOSS project with absolutely no funding. There's no designer around to do a professional SVG logo, so we make use of what's there - AI to generate the (raster image) icon and then some tools to turn that into an SVG. It turned out a little rough around some edges, but still good enough, I think. If anyone would like to polish it up, PRs are most welcome! Icons may be a matter of taste. This one may be too d…

I do appreciate doing unpaid volunteer work. My comment sounds clingy, not is not a demand more of a pointing out. Icon can really be a generic SVG taken from some CC stock website, if there is no time for anything else, would look much better. Getting rid of emoji vomit is one prompt away. I might do a PR if I find free five minutes.

One person's "emoji vomit" classification is another person's "this looks good to me".

PRs for improvements are welcome, but:

- emojis are there intentionally. I asked for them and I personally think it's not too much. It's not something to clean up.

- I think the current AI-generated logo has character and is better than a stock SVG one can find online. The logo aims to represent a creature which is a mix between cat (nheko), lion & dog. See https://github.com/etkecc/komai/blob/main/docs/user-guide/id...

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If you're choosing your software based on "has emojis in the README or not", then you'd be happy with many of the other Matrix clients. Most don't use emojis in their documentation (if they have much documentation at all).

Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

ushimitsudoki wrote: post #26

Today’s lesson learned: When Show-ing your app on HN: - Don't mention "vibe coding." - Stay away from emojis. Personally, I believe that a programmer's true skill today lies in how effectively they can leverage AI, and I’m all-in on vibe coding myself. But seeing the reaction here, I’m starting to think I should have thought twice before sharing my app on HN. Even this post was translated by AI... I guess that’s prob…

Everybody is AI coding these days, and if you're not, you may find yourself out of a job soon.

You still need skilled engineers to "operate" the AIs and to verify the results, but why on earth would you spend 3 weeks coding something by hand that Codex or Claude can spit out in a couple of hours.

For reference, at my employer we have so far in 2026 (1500+ developers) created 75% more code by AI this year compared to all of last year. Features are being delivered faster than ever, in a quality as good or better than before. As another advantage, we can now use skills to guarantee that the code that is created follows best practices, architecture patters, local governance and compliance. The "big thing" right now for us is providing guardrails and governance for agentic AI.

Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by bayarearefugee »

8fingerlouie wrote: post #33
ushimitsudoki wrote: post #26

Today’s lesson learned: When Show-ing your app on HN: - Don't mention "vibe coding." - Stay away from emojis. Personally, I believe that a programmer's true skill today lies in how effectively they can leverage AI, and I’m all-in on vibe coding myself. But seeing the reaction here, I’m starting to think I should have thought twice before sharing my app on HN. Even this post was translated by AI... I guess that’s prob…

Everybody is AI coding these days, and if you're not, you may find yourself out of a job soon. You still need skilled engineers to "operate" the AIs and to verify the results, but why on earth would you spend 3 weeks coding something by hand that Codex or Claude can spit out in a couple of hours. For reference, at my employer we have so far in 2026 (1500+ developers) created 75% more code by AI this year compared to…

> we can now use skills to guarantee that the code that is created follows best practices, architecture patters, local governance and compliance.

It is terrifying that any working software developer believes this is true.

LLMs are useful tools. But regardless of your inputs they guarantee nothing, ever.

Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by aselimov3 »

unbolted3032 wrote: post #4
aselimov3 wrote: post #2

This looks very ugly compared to other matrix clients

This may be a matter of taste, because I quite like the approach the ekte team have taken. To my eye, the app is clean and minimal and shows me everything I need easily.

Fair enough!

Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by ASalazarMX »

rolymath wrote: post #21
invalidSyntax wrote: post #13

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Vibe coding isn't bad. It's those people who do all there coding(?) with it and post it like it's there creation is the problem.

This applies to all software. You didn't make the monitor your app is being displayed on. Stop taking credit for the compiler that made your code runnable, etc.

There's a great difference between making a table with tools other people made, and ordering a custom table on Amazon, waxing it, and claiming you made it. This shouldn't even be an argument.

What a crazy era we live in where people can finally take full credit for someone else's work, because that someone else is an algorithm that even encourages you to do so.

Re: Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

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Post by LoganDark »

nullsanity wrote: post #17
LoganDark wrote: post #15

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Who cares if they used AI assistance? Vision is theirs, prompting is theirs, guidance is theirs, verification and iteration and feedback and so on is theirs. It's not like they zero-shot "make a Matrix client for Linux" and then just posted that with zero processing, review, testing, or anything. Sheesh.

Yeah! The burning of litres of waters is theirs, the degredation of their intellect and ability is theirs, the financial support of the companies ruining the internet and the world is theirs, the support of the hype machine ruining the economy is theirs! It's not like they woke up and went "I'm selfish, let's make everything a little bit worse for everyone" - but evil wins when good people vibe slop and we just let i…

Let's not blame the victim for this. I know it's unorthodox to think that evil corporations are exploiting their users in order to get away with evil things.
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