Link to post: https://mastodon.social/@nicklockwood/117069670583842298
Short version: Two seperate "vibe-coders" used Claude to create an app--which turned out identical. And then the coders went after each other.
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Nick Lockwood: Holy shit, so the "Claude plagiarised an app" story is actually "Claude produced the same app twice when prompted to do so by two separate developers" ๐
Colin Cornaby
infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/117066183348062085
I looked at the replies to this post, did some more digging, and found the actual story is even weirder.
BOTH projects were generated using Claude. So you have two people - both generating the same app from the same training data - having a public throw down over who copied who. Kind of embarrassing.
I think what's so hilarious about the whole AI thing is how it seems nobody has heard of a template.
Like, the ads say "let claude make you a customized fitness plan!" when there are like a thousand tables you can download where you just fill in sets and reps or whatever.
The fact that we needed an AI to create two identical pieces of software is just such a waste of resources. Certainly there's some open-source version of the app out there somewhere. Or at least enough to lazily glue together into the app.
Management types don't understand how things work, so they make bizarre decisions