BlenderCraft Was Already There

WE DID IT! We reverse-engineered Blender with AI and made it open source. Introducing BlenderCraft 🚀 Critique My Work After an entire weekend of running 19 autonomous Claude agents and burning an irresponsible amount of tokens, we're proud to announce BlenderCraft. A 100% free, open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Blender. We achieved something incredible: ✅ 100% feature parity with Blender ✅ Modeling, sculpting, animation, Geometry Nodes ✅ Cycles and Eevee rendering ✅ Native .blend file support ✅ Windows, macOS, and Linux ✅ No subscriptions. No paywalls. Free forever. We even managed to reproduce the original source code almost line by line. Our biggest breakthrough came when we discovered a mysterious public repository containing the entire source code: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender Apparently, it's been there since October 13, 2002. 24 YEARS AGO. So yeah, we didn't actually build anything.

A fake Reddit announcement claims that a team used autonomous Claude agents to reverse-engineer Blender and release a free open-source clone called BlenderCraft. The punchline is that they simply found Blender’s publicly available source repository, which has existed since 2002, so they did not build anything at all. This meme is sent to mock grandiose AI project announcements and effortless “reimplementations.”

• @eternalclassic / 96076 2026-10-22