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JonChesterfield ◴[] No.44463274[source]
"Fair enough. Since this was our first OSS project, we didn’t realize at first. We’ve now revised it. Thanks for your contribution."

We didn't notice that we copied your codebase, changed the name then pretended to have built it in four days?

Good grief.

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gpderetta ◴[] No.44463726[source]
"we are sorry we got caught"
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reactordev ◴[] No.44463787[source]
I would be running for the hills if I were YC. This is the kind of attitude that ends up in lawsuits.
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gryfft ◴[] No.44463989[source]
I thought tech companies were supposed to move fast and break stuff.
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ksec ◴[] No.44470104[source]
> I thought tech companies were supposed to move fast and break stuff.

This mentality is relatively new. Or more like invented by Facebook and got marketed the heck by PRs and marketing firms.

And now we have people who code before they think.

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1. gryfft ◴[] No.44472068[source]
> And now we have people who code before they think.

Thanks to coding agents, now we can have engineers who do neither