At least you think that this is satire, until the author receives a DMCA from one of the big corps saying that he leaked the transcript of their last meeting
replyToo late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.
replyLuckily LLM’s are nowhere near capable enough to pull this off for anything other than the likes of isEven()
replyYeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.
replySame, I got as far as "Finally, liberation from open source license obligations." until I went back to the comments.
replyhaha did the same. that being said I’m convinced some people do think AI reimplementation actually means cleanroom…
replyits partial satire. I kinda believe Claude/Codex spill lots of OSS code without license attribution for many millions of devs already.
replyIt wouldn't be funny if it wasn't close to the truth.
replyThe situation is a bit too Torment Nexus-y for my comfort, thank you very much
replyI don't know - if you upload a package.json with any dependencies that map to real npmjs.com packages, it does lead you to a Stripe payment page which appears to be real... and it appears you'd be sending real money.
replyMaybe that's part of the joke, though :)
I know this is satire, but I would wish to see something like this for liberating proprietary & closed-source hardware drivers.
replyThank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.
replyFor now
replyFor now...
replyThe best satire is that which becomes reality.
replyI would posit that the best satire is that which holds a clear enough mirror to society that people choose for it to not come to pass.
replyBest comment here!
replyMalus Corporation = EvilCorp
replyW.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.
replyWhile such tactics would render certain OSS software licenses absurd, the tactic itself, as a means to get around them, is entirely sound. It just reveals the flawed presupposition of such licenses. And I'm not sure there is really any way to patch them up now.
It would also entirely obviate the need for those very same OSS licenses, if LLMs can simply do a clean-room reimplementation of any copywritten software whatsoever.
replyIt will be like Galaxy Quest - they saw the historical records, copied them and then ... still needed humans to help them :)
replyI was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.
replyIt legit got me. An actual "whaaaaaatttt?" out loud and then I had to figure out why it was the top of HN haha.
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