Article URL: https://lake.computer/blog/help-wanted/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158214 Points: 8 # Comments: 0

I am very sorry that the software that I created and put online for free, without any warranty, explicit or implied, has not met your expectations. You are entitled to a full refund. I have taken the liberty to initiate it. You should already have it. No, I am not changing my project’s license from AGPLv3-or-later to MIT. I am very sorry that “impacts” your ability to use my package in your “product.” No, I don’t care about my “reach.” Feel free to take back that star. Thank you for your pull request. Yes, that does seem like a useful feature, but you shouldn’t have, and I mean you really shouldn’t have. I read all 3700 words of the PR description (I appreciated the bulletpoints and bolded sections throughout), and god only knows why, I also reviewed the commits. I see the commits say they were co-authored by Claude, but from having read the code, I think you haven’t given Claude enough credit. I have now turned off PRs for everyone who isn’t on the approved list of contributors. Yes, that list only has me and my friend Kyla, who doesn’t really write any code. Thank you for your contribution. Yes, I know that other project has implemented this feature, and many others that have been on my backlog. If you want to depend on people who have no taste in software, you are welcome to use their project instead of mine. Open source is not a competition. Yes, I know they support Windows, which we don’t. PRs welcome. No, not from you, and definitely not from them. We do support Plan 9, because one day I ate the mushrooms my friend Kyla gave me for my birthday, and realised we needed that to heal the Universe. Yes, I know they have about ten times more stars than me. Their project is on GitHub, and mine is on Codeberg, where every star is worth 100 on GitHub. Sure, whatever, it doesn’t work that way. The point is, I don’t care. I have other values. Those stars don’t pay the bills anyway. I know because I tried, and was told I had to stop. Oh, thank you for letting me know that someone has vibe-rewritten my project in Go, Rust, Swift, and Kotlin, all at once, and has also implemented every feature on my backlog and wishlist. Their README does have a lot of cool visual effects, I agree. Oh, I see they dual-licensed it in MIT and Apache 2.0. Good for them. I see they’re also merging about 21 PRs a day, because their README shows a real-time graph. All made by their their “AI teammates,” look at that. I wish I was their credit card, because then I might finally be in a happy relationship with someone who loves to use me this hard. Oh, look, the README just lit up because another PR got merged. The LLM that merged it gave the LLM that reviewed it a folded hands emoji. Good luck to anyone who wants to use this, because honestly they’ll need it. Oh, look, another PR just made it in. How wonderful. They’re burning the planet for this. Yes, I do see they now have a trendy online bank as their platinum-level sponsor, and three online gambling platforms as their gold-level sponsors. I bet they give those badges to anyone. Wait, how much? Oh. Cool. Cool cool cool. Cool. Me? I’m not doing this for money, but for the love of software and computing, and because I want the world to be a better place. No, not for you, because you keep using phrases like “agentic development lifecycle” with a straight face, and that is getting annoying. If I could find an OSI-compatible way to legally prevent you from using my code, or any code, forever, I would. Just be thankful my belief in the principles of open source is more important to me than the visceral hate I feel for you and everyone like you. No, I don’t want your “agent’s” “contributions.” Anyway, Codeberg could kick me off just for us talking.