This is one of the core reason that I dislike the LLM hyping. People are just reinventing stuff and when you ask them, it's actually a very subjective reason. Ok, anyone can do what they want with their time, the issue is that they want people to follow in their steps.
Not saying that you need a novel idea to be worthy, but those random projects have no guarantees behind them other than some cursory testing. All software have bugs, but I can't interact with something that is randomly built.
I am one of those people that reinvents the wheels because external ones don't fit my use cases.
The fact I can now fork any software and do these changes I always wanted but had no time to is amazing to me.
I do not pretend to sell it or share it, as it is de facto void of any value whatsoever.
That’s OK, but I’ve yet to see someone articulating what exactly doesn’t work in the old product. It’s always “Let’s rewrite or reinvent 90% of it, then add a minuscule variation”. The variation may be interesting, but the reinvent is what’s make it untouchable as no one (including the author) has time to ensure things are right.
A patch or a plugin is ok, but not a whole new project with dubious claims.
When other people start doing that to other teams at work, other people in open source, other people in professional settings, etc it becomes a problem for various reasons. The idea that I'm gonna gift you with a 75k lines of python to "just run it" and ask your agent to hack on it might be fine (who cares as you put it). Now scale that to 47 of such projects (a month)
They are trying to get in every opensource projects, increasing the burden of maintainers. And once a ban is announced, they’re here protesting.