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democracytoday at 11:10 AM3 repliesview on HN

tbh if the change works and the code is ok who cares what was used to build it? ChatGPT or C++ code generator. If the code looks crap - reject PR, why drama?


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orwintoday at 12:03 PM

Because to decide if it's crap, you still have to read it.And because AI respect coding guidelines, you have to actually understand what the code does to detect crap. Also the sheer number is unmanageable.

tapoxitoday at 11:20 AM

In the Monkey Selfie case - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput... - courts decided that copyright requires a human author and a human merely setting the conditions for a copyrighted work to appear is not enough.

This reasonably means AI contributions where a human has guided the AI are not subject to copyright, and thus can't be supported by a project's license.

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Sharlintoday at 11:20 AM

From a less self-centered viewpoint there are plenty of reasons to be critical of LLMs and their use.