Mea Culpa – Dark Hours

Last week I launched a project called Dark Hours, which was a website utility to give you an idea of what could be seen in the sky that night. 上周，我发布了一个名为“Dark Hours”的项目，这是一个网页工具，旨在让你了解当晚天空中可以看到什么。

A developer who created another web app called DarkHours.app replied to my comment on Bluesky yesterday to show me how similar the project was to his, including the name. The thread is here. 昨天，一位开发了名为“DarkHours.app”的网页应用的开发者在 Bluesky 上回复了我的评论，向我展示了我的项目与他的项目有多么相似，甚至连名字都一样。讨论串在这里。

I told him I’d significantly differentiate the featureset, change the name, and write up a blog post to show people his project. 我告诉他，我会大幅调整功能集、更改名称，并写一篇博文向大家推荐他的项目。

About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed, it was clear that there wasn’t anything to do except to redirect the domain directly to him and kill any plans I had to launch an iOS app for the project. 大约一小时后，当我意识到我用 Claude 开发并发布的网页应用与他的开源项目惊人地相似，甚至复现了他后来修复的一个 Bug 时，我很清楚，除了将域名直接重定向到他的网站并取消我为该项目开发 iOS 应用的所有计划外，别无他法。

I’d like to give credit where credit is due. I think he’s made a wonderful open source app and if you liked the features that were included in what I launched, please use the actual version of the project. That’s what I’ll be doing. 我希望能给予应有的认可。我认为他制作了一个非常棒的开源应用，如果你喜欢我所发布版本中的功能，请使用该项目的原版。这也是我接下来会做的事情。

I’d also like to apologize for my irresponsible use of AI to build such a thing. While I had genuinely never seen DarkHours.app before yesterday, I was careless in relying on AI to generate the project without doing the work to understand whether it closely resembled an existing project. That’s on me, and I am responsible for what I published. 我还要为我不负责任地使用 AI 构建此类项目而道歉。虽然在昨天之前我确实从未见过 DarkHours.app，但我过于草率地依赖 AI 来生成项目，而没有去核实它是否与现有项目高度雷同。这是我的疏忽，我对自己发布的内容负责。

Going forward, I won’t be using AI in this way to create any more web stuff, and I do not use it to anything close to this extent on iOS software. I do ask questions, debug issues, things like that, but I do not create apps with Claude for iOS. 展望未来，我不会再以这种方式使用 AI 来创建任何网页内容，我也不会在 iOS 软件开发中如此大规模地使用它。我确实会用它来提问、调试问题等，但我不会用 Claude 来开发 iOS 应用。