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Plenty of people are doing novel hard work with AI in open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867961

So novel the person you link to says he's mimicking an existing CAD software

"I reimplemented a state-of-the-art closed-source thing in OSS" is extremely valuable and novel work.

It may be valuable.

It seems like a stretch to call a reimplementation novel.