| ▲ | smcameron a day ago | |||||||
In the U.S., anything machine generated is uncopyrightable. Why would you put uncopyrightable code into your codebase? | ||||||||
| ▲ | gpm a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
Why wouldn't you? Your codebase (if you're a business) exists to make you money, people being able to copy some unknown portions of it without further license if they somehow legally get their hands on a copy of it seems entirely irrelevant. PS. I think this is much less clear and much less settled law than you are suggesting. | ||||||||
| ▲ | ebiester a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
It's more nuanced. If I even have a few lines I can prove are mine, those parts are copywritable in the same way Pride and Prejudice is public domain but pride and prejudice and zombies is copyrighted. | ||||||||
| ▲ | siliconpotato a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Even worse...unmaintained code. Only the human-written one has a maintainer. The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code | ||||||||
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| ▲ | hdgvhicv 21 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Autocomplete has been around for decades | ||||||||
| ▲ | ranger_danger 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
I think if you dig a little deeper you will find that the answer is not so black and white. | ||||||||