alt Hacker NewsIn the words of Admiral Ackbar, "It's a trap".
Any apparent short term gain is really a prescription for long term pain.
Ignore what AI fanboys say and instead look at what they do.
https://northeasttimes.com/2026/08/07/oracle-bans-ai-code-fr...
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packetlost • today at 2:16 PM
Oracle banned AI code for copyright reasons, you cannot interpret that as a assessment of the practical output of the models.
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gfhhnki • today at 2:27 PM
Just look at how they bragged for a year now about how AI built entire apps with a single prompt.
And now that code is being watermarked by AI, suddenly they’re artists, painstakingly prompting, crafting, to get just the right code; the watermark is unethical even!
AI psychosis is real, and even some of the smartest people I know how succumbed to it.
Is it long term pain if a small startup in a very competitive vertical gets to market quicker with code gen and finds market fit? Whether that results in a rewrite or a refactor, that is still a huge win and one that a lot of people will gamble on.