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altermetax • today at 12:12 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

I don't really see the difference, code is protected by copyright (or copyleft) as much as art is, and yet the LLM scrapers use it without scruples. Same goes for math and science publications.


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zahlman • today at 2:34 AM

Artists take pride in the intentionality of every brushstroke, and for them any given work is much more likely to reach a point where it's considered "finished".

While coders may care about the craft (and I do), it's not as if the value of my code is in the exact variable names I chose.