alt Hacker Newspeople over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business. There are genuinely very few IP in this world that needs to be protected. Everyone else is running stupid CRUD apps
They also over index fear of LargeCo stealing IP from SmallCo. In fact, LargeCo is typically more scared about even the possibility of any product team looking at competitor internals due to lawsuits.
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I’d be more scared of a data leak due to LargeCo being hacked than I would about LargeCo prying into the data.
What I don’t trust LargeCo with is personal information. I’ve heard too many horror stories about Govs and LargeCos swapping customer nudes or stalking ex’s to be comfortable with anything personal on those systems. But that’s a whole different topic.
LargeCo is probably struggling under the weight of technical debt and organizational challenges/politics.
I bet if you gave them the Codebase of the Gods, it’d be a heap of hacks inside a couple months.
> people over-rate how much software/IP is useful in running a successful business
Indeed, by a couple trillions...
How can you make such bold and generic claims without some data backing it?
You could not be more wrong in the aggregate.
Literally how LLMs will continue to learn to code and easily replace whatever you build with them.
Incredible that you could so blithely misunderstand this
Trust and liability are the actual currency in a software business.
Your email domain is significantly more important than whatever is in your corporate GitHub repositories.
> They also over index fear of LargeCo stealing IP
That seems to be a bold statement considering the whole business of this LargeCo is based on stolen IP.