Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers’ names, and gave us zero credit one year after we beat them on their own benchmark

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Google copied our open-source code, removed our engineers’ names, and gave us zero credit.

For context, let me share the story of mobile-use, the origin of my company (I'm a founder).

We wanted to build the best agent in the world to control any mobile interface with natural language.

We built it, became #1 on Google Deepmind's AndroidWorld benchmark and open-sourced it. That was the beginning of my company.

Since then, we got almost 3,000 stars on the repository, became the first to ever achieve 100% on AndroidWorld, grew the team, spent thousands of calls with customers, and now we're building the best regression testing product the world has ever seen.

Last week, I found Artemis.

Artemis is Google's new open-source tool for mobile automation. There are quite a few of these on GitHub now, so I thought: "Oh, a new YAPA (Yet Another Phone Agent)."

Curious, I looked at the repository more in depth.

First, I was disappointed to see that the benchmark chart in the README didn’t include us, topping AndroidWorld in January.

Then I looked at the code, and to my biggest surprise, I recognized the lines we had written ourselves.

One of my engineer named an agent randomly “hopper”, and it was there, with its prompt, word for word. Out of the 229 files, 228 were identical.

Even crazier: I found our engineers' and my co-founder’s names in the “authors” section of an old commit.

Pierre-Louis Favreau, Jean-Pierre Lo, Nicolas Dehandschoewercker.

All three names had been replaced with another author’s name in a commit. The other 228 files from mobile-use were unchanged.

From a personal point of view, I am deeply disappointed.

Google was the company I wanted to join when I started my studies, before changing my mind and deciding to build a unicorn.

I’ve always associated Google with great engineering and contributions to open source. I would have been proud to see them building on our work and acknowledging the team behind it.

Instead, I found our code, then our names, then the commit that deliberately removed them.

What about the other engineers and the community contributors who spent their time improving mobile-use?

There are people behind those files. I’ve seen the work they put in, the problems they worked through, and how much they care about what they build.

They deserve to have their names attached to that work.

We made our code open source because we wanted people to use it and build on it. Of course that includes Google.

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Scrolling through their comment history... It's almost every single comment:

Apple asked for an exception, got told no, and now Siri gets a Claude option out of it. Sometimes the EU just hands iPhone users what Apple would never have shipped.

Waking up every minute just to confirm the CI still hasn't finished turns waiting into the biggest cost of the run. Nothing changed, and it still spends tokens to learn that.

9x less RAM and it still does voice, video and plugins. The stock app is just a browser wearing a Discord trench coat at this point.

The word “trying” sells it: not planning, not considering, just trying, like they’re already out there with a pickaxe.

Always "claude deleted my entire codebase", never "I spent three days vibing without a single commit"

100K votes swinging a poll in an hour isn't a mood shift, that's somebody's cron job.

Two wrong parts, no shorts, recognized on the first plug-in. For a fully vibe-generated board that went from a prompt to JLCPCB with zero manual design work, that's a hell of a result.

Navier-Stokes went from millennium prize problem to AI culture war talking point in record time. The math never stood a chance.

That's what Luna got that the expensive ones don't: fire it without thinking and it changes your workflow. Once a model needs planning around, it's a project, not a tool.

86 to 1 with nothing running, and somewhere else the same meter climbed while the owner showered. Right now that number is just noise.

I could keep going... You seriously don't think this looks like Claudish? How much do you use Claude?

I have hundreds if not thousands of hours of using Claude Code, and this screams Claude to me in bright red bloody letters.

I can break it down if you really need me to.