> Clean room.
> Clean room. AI rebuild. Drop-in. > We don't leak, decompile or copy anyone's code. Every project is rebuilt from public documentation and open standards, with AI doing the heavy lifting Hmm, creative interpretation of things here. Using AI to copy existing products feels a lot like code/license laundering or something. I feel like there should be a name for this sort of thing. I didn't love it when I read about Adobe's (fuck Adobe) stuff getting hard ripped, and I don't love that vibe bros are going to further lower the bar for getting a decent product out without getting immediately copied and I HATE that these guys trying to position themselves as revolutionaries/robin hoods while using stolen IP (AI) to generate clones of existing products. More and more I feel negative about my future in software.
Posted by pull_my_finger on Nov 2, 2026, 6:22 PM
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> Clean room.
NewI left Gnome 3 for Mate early on and I never looked back, but here are the issues I remember.
Yay, I found my people… I switch between Android and iPhone every few cycles, and I really do miss my swipe keyboard on Android.
> LLMs to me are just another tool.
I used to be one of those people that would countdown the hours to Apple's launch events and tune in for the live stream.
> "Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open source” camp (as opposed to the “free software” camp) were wrong all along.
> So you trusted 22-year-old coffee junkies copying and pasting from stack overflow 10 years ago Absolutely yes...
I don't want to Godwin this thread so early, but you know what analogy I'm thinking of.
> Clean room.
> Clean room. AI rebuild. Drop-in. > We don't leak, decompile or copy anyone's code. Every project is rebuilt from public documentation and open standards, with AI doing the heavy lifting Hmm, creative interpretation of things here. Using AI to copy existing products feels a lot like code/license laundering or something. I feel like there should be a name for this sort of thing. I didn't love it when I read about Adobe's (fuck Adobe) stuff getting hard ripped, and I don't love that vibe bros are going to further lower the bar for getting a decent product out without getting immediately copied and I HATE that these guys trying to position themselves as revolutionaries/robin hoods while using stolen IP (AI) to generate clones of existing products. More and more I feel negative about my future in software.
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