I strongly doubt this tool is nearly as popular as it appears to be. GitHub stars can be bought and social media is ridden with bots. On the dead internet it is cheap and trivial to generate fake engagement in order to reel in curious humans and potential victims.
I suspect this entire thing is a honeypot setup by scammers. It has all the tells: virality, grand promises, open source, and even the word "open" in the name. Humans should get used this being the new normal on the internet. Welcome to the future.
I’ve had several non-technical friends tell me about it. It’s like the Queens Gambit was to chess players but for people in tech
It was on the morning news today
That's not what I mean. Of course the buzz will reach mainstream media if everyone on social media seems to be talking about it.
What I mean is that the virality was bootstrapped by bots, which in turn was spread by humans. Virality can be maintained entirely by bots now, to give the appearance that there are more users than there actually are. But I doubt that the amount of humans using it is anywhere close to what the amount of engagement suggests. Which wouldn't be suprising considering the project is all about a large number of autonomous agents that interact with online services. It's a bot factory.
Oh I see
It's absolutely absurd that GitHub hasn't addressed it, to be honest. Right now it has 140k stars: more than foundational frameworks like Laravel or Express or universal tooling like ESLint or the Rust compiler.
Sure, bud. Totally legitimate.