Yacine doubles down: to spy on your neighbor, buy his TV and smash it
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-26
Continuing the debate over OpenAI and Anthropic blocking reverse engineering via Codex, Yacine MTB offers an absurdist analogy: the first step to spying on your neighbor would be buying the TV he has and smashing it.
He reiterates his position that reverse engineering is hacking, represents 95% of the speedup from LLMs, and that labs cannot fix this.
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