If someone builds an electron app and gets VC funded, is that somehow unethical?
Lines of code is irrelevant. Only issue is if they are building on top of a codebase whose license they have violated.
https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/bf67ece35...
Just dd a promptfrom one object and p it to another.
https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/c59d90a4c...
change a keyboard shortcut lol
https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/489004ae0...
manually set font size in 3 places but remove the variable that would still be valid in 2 places???
https://github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule/commit/9bbee4c3d...
made an error message longer
Now to be fair I've never been paid 270k by coinbase so presumably these guys are a lot smarter than me, but I'm still really confused why they got funded.
You get hired and undercontribute for nine months before putting in notice after you win another interview, which is easier this time because you won one before and got the pedigree.
There is a whole generation of people who write solutions to assignments and have no idea how to create software. These commits are what happens when they don’t receive a prompt requiring a from-scratch implementation of a topological sort.
Lines of code is a proxy for "how hard would it be for someone else to do what these guys are doing but better" and the answer here is "not very".
Let's take it to the extreme - how much would you fund a "tech startup" that doesn't have any of its own code at all, but rather just has its founder manually press buttons on a third-party tool's GUI?
Note that I'm not asking whether it's ethical, or even if the service is worth it to a customer (maybe the founder really is good at pressing the right button at the right time) - but would you as a founder fund it, knowing that there's pretty much no barrier-to-entry whatsoever?