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

I 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.

Maybe that's part of the joke, though :)

Too late. Someone's senior executive management has probably already seen it and spinning up a new project to implement it.

Luckily LLM’s are nowhere near capable enough to pull this off for anything other than the likes of isEven()

The situation is a bit too Torment Nexus-y for my comfort, thank you very much

Yeah, thank you. I was starting to get a little heated.

Same, I got as far as "Finally, liberation from open source license obligations." until I went back to the comments.

haha did the same. that being said I’m convinced some people do think AI reimplementation actually means cleanroom…

W.r.t. intent, yes. But w.r.t. content, we are long past a situation where it is unrealistic enough to function as satire.

While 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.

Thats a bit more difficult as you have to somehow leak or hack the proprietary code first to train the initial llm.

It will be like Galaxy Quest - they saw the historical records, copied them and then ... still needed humans to help them :)

its partial satire. I kinda believe Claude/Codex spill lots of OSS code without license attribution for many millions of devs already.

It wouldn't be funny if it wasn't close to the truth.

Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.

I know this is satire, but I would wish to see something like this for liberating proprietary & closed-source hardware drivers.

For now...

The best satire is that which becomes reality.

I 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.

Best comment here!

I was wondering. I had heard chardet story and wouldn't be surprised to see others moving into that same space.

For now

Malus Corporation = EvilCorp

It legit got me. An actual "whaaaaaatttt?" out loud and then I had to figure out why it was the top of HN haha.