I bet someone has already made this service for real.
Malus – Clean Room as a Service
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#32"Change all your core software library dependencies to be unmaintained ripoff copies of those libraries." Sounds wise.....¡¡
Sounds like my CTO. Overuse of LLMs in c-suites is like overuse of weed by teenagers - it may not cause delusions, but it sure seems to make them worse.
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#33turd.png classy
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#34This is brilliant satire. Wonderful response to the “rewrite” of chardet.
^ For those who haven’t been keeping up on the debacle.
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#35Note for people who just briefly skimmed the site: This is satire.
For now...
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#37> You have been so generous, so unreasonably, almost suspiciously generous, that you have made it possible for an entire global economy to run on software that nobody technically owns, maintained by people that nobody technically employs, governed by licenses that nobody technically reads. It is a miracle of human cooperation. It is also, from a fiduciary standpoint, completely insane. Funny but true.
Isn't that the premise of Fallout ?
Nope!
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#38It's interesting that the focus is just on open source licenses. If one can strip licenses from source code using LLMs, then surely a Microsoft employee could do the same with the Windows source code!
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#39The frustrating thing is I also thought about this as a natural conclusion - but as a natural workflow that corporations will do when they see AGPL dependencies they want to use. (I also think there's a world where we start tightening our software bill of materials anyway.)
I do not believe it will ever again make sense to build open source for business. the era of OSS as a business model will be very limited going forward. As sad and frustrating as it is, we did it to ourselves.