# Open Sauce and GPS time were my summer AI Antiseptics

> Source: <https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/open-sauce-gps-time-badge/>
> Published: 2026-07-22 14:00:00+00:00

In the midst of our AI slop revolution, traveling to the West coast for [Open Sauce](https://www.opensauce.com) 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](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time).

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](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time/blob/master/Requirements.md) at Claude and ultimately came up with [this 2141 MicroPython app](https://github.com/geerlingguy/tufty-gps-time/blob/master/gps_time/__init__.py) for Pimoroni's Badgeware ecosystem.