This guy stole this idea and basically the whole code base from another developer and ran it through an LLM to recreate it.
You could probably get 90% of the way there with a prompt that literally just says:
> Create a TUI application for exploring deployed AWS resources. Write it in Rust using the most popular TUI library.
Creating a tool via a LLM based on a similar idea isn’t quite stealing.
I’ve been a long-term k9s user, and the motivation was simply: “I wish I had something like k9s, but for AWS.” That’s a common and reasonable source of inspiration.
A terminal UI for AWS is a broad, well-explored idea. Similar concepts don’t imply copied code. In this case, even the UIs are clearly different—the interaction model and layout are not the same.
The implementation, architecture, and UX decisions are my own, and the full commit history is public for anyone who wants to review how it evolved.
If there’s a specific piece of code you believe was copied, I’m happy to look at it. Otherwise, it’s worth checking what someone actually built before making accusations based on surface-level assumptions.