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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

exasperaited 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code

I have used this "instant legacy code" concept before. It's absolutely true, IMO. But people really, really, really hate hearing it.

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.