jmalicki says many things, among them being
"As a side gig, I write novel software that solves problems no existing software does,"
and
"Yes, they are hiring the experts themselves. To create new knowledge above and beyond what's on the internet. To be locked away as LLM training data."
More likely you're joking and/or paranoid!8-))
I wish our actual world wasn't an implausible scifi novel!
> I write novel software that solves problems no existing software does
This is actually really easy to do if you step out of web/gui/crud and into something where you won't find public code, most ever, because it's trade secret. For example, manufacturing.