Recently, someone rebuilt a famous and expensive piece of software with an AI agent, and published it for free. Thousands of people installed it. It made a lot of noise, and kicked off a whole “Reverse-Engineer-Everything” trend. Almost no one read the source. The author had not written a line of it either. There was no one left to ask. More than five years ago, I wrote a blog post called Do you trust your FOSS?. The idea was simple, and I still stand by it: a free licence does not mean someone checked the code. To trust a piece...