Post #3867240
2026-03-22 17:52 UTC
Reminder: AI "generated" code is 100% plagiarized. You must not accept code of unknown provenance into your code base. Doing so opens you up to potential copyright infringement lawsuits. Nobody needs a repeat of the SCO vs IBM lawsuit over ownership of Unix.
Accepting AI-assisted code is just legally untenable. That's black and white, there's nothing to debate. Projects that accept it are idiots and should be shunned.
https://mastodon.social/@hyc/114777864519941643
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-07-06 17:45
This is why you must never accept code of unknown provenance into your projects. https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116874051553161125
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 23:04
LLMs don't "generate" anything. Everything they spit out is just a verbatim copy of something that was in their training input. They're copy/paste machines. They select code samples in response to your prompts based on the statistical relevance of comments or text matching your prompts in the vicinity of the chosen code.