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This AI Startup "Copied" an Open-Source Project and Got Half a Million Dollar Funding by Y Combinator (news.itsfoss.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Road to success (2024 AI Hype Edition):

  1. Clone VSCode.
  2. Rename it as LSCode, squash all history, and create some random commits with --author="Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>".
  3. Add a character AI that calls your code garbage.
  4. Profit.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For the second step there is git blame-someone-else