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Comment by mtlynch

This seems AI-generated. Both the project itself and the HN intro sound fishy.

It seems to be a UI for creating symlinks on Windows?

I'm not clear on what problem that solves. What's a situation where you need to move a file that another program depends on for the sake of organization? I can imagine organizing my photos or music, but this makes it sound like I'm going to organize random DLLs in system32.

One of the advertised features is " Error Prevention: Smart validation and error handling." I checked the wiki for more information, and found this:

>Error Prevention

>Validates operations before execution

>Checks for:

>Write permissions

>Disk space

>Existing files

>Valid paths

That seems highly AI-generated. If not, it sounds like it's needlessly reimplementing a lot of what the OS already does automatically.

parent mtlynch 1 year ago

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