alt Hacker NewsIn general to avoid IP legal problems in the USA you can't do all of that yourself. Generally one party has to do all of the reverse engineering and write a specification based on that. Then another party can take that specification and write a "clean room" implementation.
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ctoth • 12/10/2025
I've been thinking about this recently. What if one of the parties is an LLM?
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realo • 12/10/2025
So... I ask Gemini to write a technical spec and Claude Code to implement it?
Basically a week-end project...
Are there examples where a single person doing it gets successfully sued? It could just be that those companies were extra risk adverse so they came up with monetarily inefficient ways to defend themselves.