Patents aren't vulnerable to cleanroom reverse engineering. You can create something yourself in your bedroom and use it yourself without knowing the patented thing exists, and still violate the patent. That's why they're so scary.

You won't get caught if you write something yourself and use it yourself, but programmers (contrary to entrepreneurs) have a pattern of avoiding illegal things instead of avoiding getting caught.

The sad part is that most software patents are so woefully underspecified and content-free that even Claude might have trouble coming up with an actual implementation.

Tha was my assumption as well.

I caught iOS trying to autocorrect something I wrote twice yesterday, and somehow before I hit submit it managed it a third time, and I had to edit it after, where it tried three more times to change it back.

Autocorrect won’t be happy until we all sound like idiots and I wonder if that’s part of how they plan to do away with us. Those hairless apes can’t even use their properly.

Yeah patterns. lol!