it might as well be real

I’m not in these devs heads, but I guess that’s the point. Providing something that’s real enough (as a toy model, you’re not going to clean room blender with this…) to get the discussion started and see what we can do against that kind of practice which will definitely become a real threat in the future if left unchecked.

At least I hope that’s the intention rather than “lulz”.

This website was made by two devs quite involved in the open source community. If you don’t want to call it satire, suit yourself I guess (though it does present a number of satirical elements, look at the company names in the success reports: “definitely real corp”, “profit first LLC”…) but this is definitely not an AI bro company, and more of a warning and reflection on possible consequences of LLMs on foss software.

Here’s a link to their fosdem 26 talk that inspired the website and “service” : https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_source_together_with_this_one_simple_trick/

Mint is just so fucking great to get new users in, it’s also what I install on the machines of the poor souls who are still trapped in Microsoft’s hellscape and are open to the idea of trying another OS.

The Linux Mint devs are really doing awesome work.