--- title: I Open-Sourced My AI-Powered Problem-Solving App.... description: A developer with 20+ years of experience built a messenger app using AI-assisted development (roughly 50% AI-generated code, 0% AI-designed architecture), then... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/i-open-sourced-my-ai-powered-problem-solving-app-developers-hated-it--mgcg4rsa3 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: I Open-Sourced My AI-Powered Problem-Solving App. Developers Hated It. | daily.dev og:description: A developer with 20+ years of experience built a messenger app using AI-assisted development (roughly 50% AI-generated code, 0% AI-designed architecture), then... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-open-sourced-my-ai-powered-problem-solving-app-developers-hated-it--mgcg4rsa3 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MGCG4RsA3.png og:image:alt: I Open-Sourced My AI-Powered Problem-Solving App. Developers Hated It. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # I Open-Sourced My AI-Powered Problem-Solving App. Developers Hated It. **[Rza Asadov](https://daily.dev/sources/bpb4hehqaz95ffyqqyzvn)** · [@rzaasadov](https://daily.dev/rzaasadov) · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer with 20+ years of experience built a messenger app using AI-assisted development (roughly 50% AI-generated code, 0% AI-designed architecture), then open-sourced it. After submitting to an open-source news site, about 90% of comments were negative — not based on code quality or functionality, but purely because AI was involved. The author reflects on how developers, despite being seen as rational, can be just as resistant to change as anyone else, and argues that AI removes repetitive boilerplate work rather than replacing engineering judgment. ## Content   # I Open-Sourced My AI-Built Messenger. The Code Wasn't the Most Controversial Part. Three months ago, I decided to build a messenger, originally only for a limited group of users: my friends, family, and a few work colleagues. After I finished it and people around me started using it, I decided to open source the project. Today, around **400 people** from my own environment use it every day, and it works reliably. I built it with AI—not because I don't know how to develop software or because I lack experience. Quite the opposite. I have more than **20 years of software development experience**, and I used that experience to design the architecture, make technical decisions, and build the React Native apps for both iOS and Android. Around **50% of the code** was generated with AI, but **0% of the architecture** was. I open-sourced it for a simple reason: maybe someone will use it, maybe someone will learn something from it. Either way, I'm giving it away for free. Later, I submitted the project to an open-source news website. The administrators accepted it because they believed it was a quality project, even though AI was used during development. Then I started reading the comments. Honestly, I was shocked. About **90% of the comments** were negative. Most people hadn't even tried the product—they simply saw "AI-built" and immediately decided it couldn't be good. At the same time, many others left positive feedback, starred the project on GitHub, and appreciated that it was open source. That experience taught me something. People often assume that developers are highly rational because of their profession. But sometimes we're just like everyone else—we reject something because it threatens the way we've always worked. I don't see AI as replacing developers. I see it as removing repetitive work so developers can spend more time solving real problems. If I could build a fully functional messenger in just three months—one with many of the features people expect from apps like Telegram—it doesn't mean AI replaced engineering. It means AI helped me spend less time writing boilerplate and more time building the product. Some people reacted as if I had claimed to be the next Zeus, trying to replace WhatsApp and Telegram overnight. I wasn't. I simply built something useful, shared it for free, and wanted to contribute to the open-source community. 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