I jest, but in a world where these models have been trained on gigatons of open source I don't even see the moral problem. IANAL, don't actually do this.
“Let's end open source together with this one simple trick”
https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/talk/SUVS7G/feedback/
Malus is translating code into text, and from text back into code.
It gives the illusion of clean room implementation that some companies abuse.
The irony is that ChatGPT/Claude answers are all actually directly derived from open-source code, so...
Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fall in the same legal area as code that would be generated by something like Malus.
Different code, same end result (binary or api).
We definitely need to know what the legal limits are and should be
I think it's worth posting as its own submission (if it wasn't already).
But do we have precedent (in any country) that distributing different source code that compiles to the exact same binary is illegal ?
The same reasoning may apply here :P
It’s a dynamic, subscription based service, not a static asset like a video.
Why would it be the exact same one? Now that we have the code, it's trivial to have it randomize the prompt a bit on different requests.
The real value here will be in using other cheap models with the cc harness.
So not even close to Opus, then?
These are a year behind, if not more. And they're probably clunky to use.
Who'd have thought, the audience who doesn't want to give back to the opensource community, giving 0 contributions...
People simply want Opus without fear of billing nightmare.
That’s like 99% of it.