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Ask HN: I created a web browser using Claude, everybody hates it

A developer who built the Northstar web browser using Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and OpenAI's ChatGPT Codex reports that users hate the product and personally insult the creator, calling it 'AI slop.' The developer asks whether this reception means AI coding services like Claude are a failure.

read1 min views21 publishedAug 15, 2026

| ||||||||||||||||||||| 4 points by | I created a web browser, Northstar web browser, using Claude, Gemini and Chatgpt Codex, everybody hates it, insults me personally and calls it AI slop. https://github.com/nordstjernen-web/northstar-browser Does this mean that the AI coding services are a failure? Claude is a failure? | |||||||||||||||||||| |

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