“A while ago I tried to submit an iOS app for Dark Hours, my astronomy website for normal people. It was rejected on the grounds that it was astrology. It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I've asked, would associate with astrology.”

Godier's original blog post (as cited in Gruber's retraction) · Aug 7 · Daring Fireball retracts App Store rejection criticism after discovering app was astrology

“I'd also like to apologize for my irresponsible use of AI to build such a thing. While I had genuinely never seen DarkHours.app before yesterday, I was careless in relying on AI to generate the project without doing the work to understand whether it closely resembled an existing project.”

Blog post · Aug 8 · Developer Apologizes for AI-Generated Astronomy App That Plagiarized Open Source Project

“web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed”

Blog post · Aug 8 · Developer Apologizes for AI-Generated Astronomy App That Plagiarized Open Source Project

“It has no tarot function, no horoscopes, and nothing that I, or anyone else I've asked, would associate with astrology.”

Godier's original blog post (as quoted by Gruber) · Aug 6 · John Gruber retracts App Store critique after misrepresenting Godier's astrology app