alt Hacker NewsThe genie is out of the bottle here. If this were true then all fortune 500 companies would be pearl clutching and limiting their developers access to these tools.
But for better or worst I can assure you (for which you have no reason to believe me, just look at the headlines): nearly all tech companies are setting internal goals to have x% of code generated by llms by y date. And speaking as an insider, that x number is very large and that y date is very soon.
And before everyone continues to downvote me because I'm saying things that you don't want to hear, you have to realize that this is the world we live in now.
So, either you're right and the legal entities attached to some of the most powerful tech corporations have just decided to flaunt the law. Or you are missing something, or the game has changed.
Open source projects that want to hide behind provenance as a gate keeper to introduce llm generated code into their code base are going to get smoked.
There's nothing stopping a company like anthropic from funding an open source division that starts forking projects and accelerating the development. Expect 1000x more Buns.
There's nothing stopping an wealthy individual who wants to do that.
When the dust settles, no one is going to be worried about what you've typed here.
And if somehow the ip lawyers and capitalists won, then China will become the tech hub of the world.
Whether it's right or wrong, that is the reality.
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Is this comment LLM generated?
Have fun with 1000x more Buns that literally no one is using or maintaining. An entire software industry built on top of a burning garbage pile of crappy, dead code.
The Fortune 10 company that I spent decades at and retired from just a couple years ago noticed this issue immediately and issued a blanket ban on the use of these tools for the company’s own code that to my knowledge has not been rescinded. (They also started developing their own coding-specific LLM, training solely on code they owned, around the same time.)
You might consider that there is a very large incentive by the large and public players in this market to promote the idea that this is not true, that they consider themselves large and powerful enough to actually flout the law, and that they plan to use the argument that enforcement will be too damaging to the economy to make their view the “new normal.”
This playbook has been run before, by Uber and Lyft, by AirBnB, by Tesla with “FSD,” and so on. It’s very clearly the approach being taken.