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New comment by eb08a167 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

eb08a167 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:18:16 +0000

It's by far not the only Chinese 3D printer manufacturer that completely disregards open-source licenses. There's also Anycubic Slicer Next, which is essentially a reskinned OrcaSlicer with additional presets for Anycubic printers, yet you won't find its source code anywhere, not even if you request it via email.

New comment by eb08a167 in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

eb08a167 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:17:49 +0000

I'm totally fine with people experimenting and making amateur attempts at what adult people do. After all, that's how we grow. What I'm actually curious about is how the decision-making chain at Ubuntu got so messed up that this made it into production.

New comment by eb08a167 in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

eb08a167 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:13:21 +0000

A computer generating a compiler is nothing new. Unzip has done this many many times. The key difference is that unzip extracts data from an archive in a deterministic way, while LLMs recover data from the training dataset using a lossy statistical model. Aid that with a feedback loop and a rich test suite, and you get exactly what Anthropic has achieved.

While I agree that the technology behind this is impressive, the biggest issue is license infringement. Everyone knows there's GPL code in the training data, yet there's no trace of acknowledgment of the original authors.