I understand the feeling - LLMs have seen the source code for other projects. but would you not have read other engine’s code to understand the problem space and existing solutions too?
The architecture is different, the language is different, implementation choices are all mine. It was not developed by autonomous agents. I don’t think you’ll find any code that is a duplicate of other engines* - happy to be proven wrong here.
* The regexp and unicode modules are taken from QuickJS and have the appropriate licenses.
Exactly. A common LLM criticism is that they "steal copyrighted code" (or other IP), but then often the same people say that code or music should not be patentable because it's all the same basic patterns just combined in different ways, so nobody should have a monopoly on that.
This is easily one of the most egregious examples of the "same people" fallacy I've seen on HN.