Recently, a port of Notepad++ to macOS has been making the rounds online, mainly due to the project using the Notepad++ name without permission and in breach of the original author’s trademark. But does it deserve any attention, or is it just AI slop all the way down? After the trademark dispute, the port was renamed to Nextpad++. In the contributors section of its GitHub page, there are three accounts. The middle one belongs to Claude, Anthropic’s LLM; specifically, this GitHub account is used by Claude Code, an agentic coding tool. Or, alternatively, a vibe-coded app that will vibe-code anything you ask for, as long as you pay for the (temporarily heavily subsidized) subscription fee. The contributors of Nextpad++. There were 191 commits in the repository at the time of writing. Let’s check out the contributors page: @aletik: 188 commits, 747k lines added, 129k lines deleted @claude: 181 commits, 734k lines addded, 129k lines deleted @christianbaumann: 2 commits, 48 lines added, 44…
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