> Each task comes from a private production codebase that we licensed from a real-world company

How does that work?

traceroute66 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> How does that work?

My gut feeling is that any serious real-world company with a proprietary codebase worth looking at would not be handing out the crown jewels to a third party. License or not.

I don't doubt somebody licensed their codebase to them, I just have my doubts about who the "who" could be.

	▲	InsideOutSanta 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Code isn't worth all that much if you don't own the associated IP, mainly copyright. And even if you disagree with that premise, if you trust that they can keep the code secret, it's basically free money. At any rate, I'm not sure it matters whose codebase it is. I'd even say that a shitty codebase might make for a better test.

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strobe an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

lot of ads everywhere offering to buy your codebase of real product/star up even it long gone or failed (offer usually price per lines of code). So most likely that they have bunch of abandoned codebases between small and medium sizes and probably also some fake codebases as well.