Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop
by heavyset_go on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:45PM
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> then you've got your own IP.
AI output isn't copyrighted in the US.
He is referring to taking AI output and making it your company's property.
Re:We put a coding agent in a while loop
by AlexandrB on Monday August 25, 2025 @04:53PM
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If AI output can't be copyrighted it can't be your company's property, just the company's secret. And you can't sue anyone who uses the secret if it gets out.
repoMirror is the wrong name, aiCodeLaundering would be more accurate. This is bulk machine translation from one language to another, but in this case, it is code.
>and then you've got your own IP.
except you dont
I wrote an MCP based on that technique - https://github.com/whs/mcp-chinesewall
Basically to avoid the ambiguity of training LLM from unlicensed code, I use it to generate description of the code to another LLM trained from permissively licensed code. (There aren't any usable public domain models I've found)
I use it in real world and it seems that the codegen model work 10-20% of the time (the description is not detailed enough - which is good for "clean room" but a base model couldn't follow that). All models can review the code, retry and write its own implementation based on the codegen result though.
Nice. Any chance you could put in some attributions and credits in your paper? https://orcid.org/0009-0007-3955-9994
Yeah, we're in weird territory because you can drive an LLM as a Bitcoin mixer over intellectual property. That's the entire point/meaning behind https://ghuntley.com/z80.
You can take something that exists, distill it back to specs, and then you've got your own IP. Throw away the tainted IP, and then just run Ralph over a loop. You are able to clone things (not 100%, but it's better than hiring humans).