Dev Laments Claude Copying His VoidZero-Style Project; lacker: Open Source Will Be Copied 100s of Times
lacker · x · 2026-10-15
- Developer cnakazawa vented: "Building a linter and formatter was too ambitious, so I told Claude to copy VoidZero" — a rueful congrats after his project got AI-replicated.
- lacker replies that this is now the fate of every good open source project: they'll be informally copied and embedded in hundreds of other projects, and "we will have to emotionally adjust."
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