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jacquesm12/07/20251 replyview on HN

Who brought Stack Overflow up? Stack Overflow does not magically generate code, someone has to actually provide it first.


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Mtinie12/07/2025

I generally agree with your underlying point concerning attribution and intellectual property ownership but your follow-up comment reframes your initial statement: LLMs generate recombinations of code from code created by humans, without giving credit.

Stack Overflow offers access to other peoples’ work, and developers combined those snippets and patterns into their own projects. I suspect attribution is low.

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