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Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer AI Antiseptics

Jeff Geerling used Claude to code a 2141-line MicroPython app for Pimoroni's Badgeware ecosystem, creating a Tufty GPS Time Badge for the Open Sauce conference, which he describes as an "antiseptic" for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness.

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In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for Open Sauce this past weekend was the perfect antiseptic for rising costs, summer heat, and online divisiveness.

It's ironic, then, that I used Claude to vibe code my Tufty GPS Time Badge. Partly due to time constraints, and partly because I wanted to see if I could complete a personal project end-to-end, without editing a line of code, I throw my requirements at Claude and ultimately came up with this 2141 MicroPython app for Pimoroni's Badgeware ecosystem.

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