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MangoCats@feddit.it 5 days agoI think the point is that someone should understand the code. In this case, no one does.
Big corporations have been pushing for outsourcing software development for decades, how is this any different? Can you always recall your outsourced development team for another round of maintenance? A LLM may actually be more reliable and accessible in the future.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If you outsource you could at least sure them when things go wrong. Good luck doing that with AI.
Plus you can own the code if a person does it.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 days ago
Most outsourcing consultants I have worked with aren’t worth the legal fees to attempt to sue.
I’m not aware of any ownership issues with code I have developed using Claude, or any other agents. It’s still mine, all the more so because I paid Claude to write it for me, at my direction.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
AI doesn’t get IP protections.
MangoCats@feddit.it 5 days ago
Nobody is asking it to (except freaks trying to get news coverage.)
It’s like compiler output - no, I didn’t write that assembly code, gcc did, but it did it based on my instructions. My instructions are copyright by me, the gcc interpretation of them is a derivative work covered by my rights in the source code.
When a painter paints a canvas, they don’t record the “source code” but the final work is also still theirs, not the brush maker or the canvas maker or paint maker (though some pigments get a little squirrely about that…)