The same patterns repeat - AI is the devil and ruining our minds, just as social media, the internet, and TV did beforehand. Always a bit true, always a bit false.

At the same time: no one is making TV shows like Sesame Street anymore, nobody is building Napster in their basement or launching Wikipedia, etc. Also true. But likeminded people are still there, doing something even more powerful now with more powerful tools.

The risks and opportunities go hand-in-hand. People are largely the same, so what we focus on and how we use the tools we have before us are what define our future outcomes.

There are people right now working on experimental projects that couldn't have existed without AI, just as Wikipedia couldn't have existed without the web. Who knows which ones will persist, but don't look at our past successes as unrepeatable (though they are) but as a blueprint for how to embrace the future with positively, despite negatives that come along with it.

"I extracted the code from a tool that was trained on software X (possibly copyrighted so it cant spit it out all at once). Which is designed to allow it to be extracted bits at a time."

"My prompts to extract this code from the LLM may have helped it spit it out in a way that it worked."

--- Would be more honest.

Built, really? From what I have seen, it is more like knockoffs, strictly worse than the original except that they are free, and unlike cracks, presumably legal.

I agree with the other two, though it is getting close to the cracking scene, which is certainly cool, but a bit different in sprit to what led to Linux and Wikipedia.

What we are seeing more of is "I had this specific need and I quickly vibecoded some software to do it". This is actually really cool, but it doesn't scale. These tools answer to the need of one person, they may break everywhere else but who cares, it does the job. But for a community project, it is not acceptable, everything has to work for everyone.