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Re:Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love by ASalazarMX on Friday May 08, 2026 @03:25PM (#48067571)
There's a great difference between making a table with tools other people made, and ordering a custom table on Amazon, waxing it, and claiming you made it. This shouldn't even be an argument.

What a crazy era we live in where people can finally take full credit for someone else's work, because that someone else is an algorithm that even encourages you to do so.

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Re:Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love by spantaleev on Friday May 08, 2026 @04:29PM (#48068378)
If you mean Komai specifically, I think that this characterization is unfair.

Komai is explicitly presented as a fork of Nheko. We credit the upstream project, major libraries (matrix-sdk) and assets (iconsets, etc.), and are open about using AI during development.

I’m not claiming sole authorship or pretending Komai was created from scratch. It's built on existing work (done by various humans over many years) and we're being transparent and thankful about it.

Disclosure: I've spent multiple months working on Komai (with AI and other humans).

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Re:Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love by ASalazarMX on Friday May 08, 2026 @07:58PM (#48070249)
I was specifically addressing my parent comment, which was equating taking credit for LLM output to taking credit for making something using tooling or hardware.
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