An LLM cranked out a single‑page site in plain HTML while the author was on the toilet. The page loads instantly, fits any screen with one clamp(), renders identically in every browser, and serves over HTTPS. It includes proper lang attributes and screen‑reader hints, yet the author admits the code is a nostalgic nod to 2014 rather than a production template, and it still passes basic SEO checks.

That convenience masks a new valuation model: complexity fuels spend. The repo now pulls in $1,000,000 of token usage each hour, deliberately burned to showcase agentic AI pipelines. Instead of a handful of dependencies, the build bundles 1,300 npm packages into a 9 MB payload, a badge of infrastructure heft that investors prize over readable code. The cost signals scalability to VCs.

Open‑source contributors drown in a flood of autogenerated pull requests; a bot now triages any issue mentioning “good first issue.” License files sit unused, and maintainers burned out in 2023 handed control to an LLM that rewrites specs in Rust on demand. The author invites direct emails, but the response will be a token‑costly, automated “wontfix.” No human reviewer will ever see it.