It demonstrates that he did something worse than what he's accusing his former intern of doing:
Second, we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to play with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python online. Now, after you learn with Codecademy courses, you can use Codecademy Labs to create your own programs, share them via Twitter and Facebook, and show your friends what you’ve learned.
Unlike Radon, he commercialized his "clone."
It doesn't matter morally that he cloned what his previous employer did (and it's hard to argue that Radon's tool is a clone to begin with, not that there would be anything morally wrong with it), but it does highlight his hypocrisy.
Tbf, he made the first version of Replit as an open source project before joining Codecademy, and it's likely that retaining ownership of that project was part of his employment contract.
Second, we’re also excited to announce one of the first (of many!) projects that Amjad has worked on with us: Codecademy Labs, the easiest way to play with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python online. Now, after you learn with Codecademy courses, you can use Codecademy Labs to create your own programs, share them via Twitter and Facebook, and show your friends what you’ve learned.
Unlike Radon, he commercialized his "clone."
It doesn't matter morally that he cloned what his previous employer did (and it's hard to argue that Radon's tool is a clone to begin with, not that there would be anything morally wrong with it), but it does highlight his hypocrisy.