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Ask HN: Will AI trigger mass IP protectionism in software?

Posted by zaksa on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.

One of the reasons AI is so "good" at software development is that it is trained on a snapshot of a large corpus of already solved software problems.In the future, wouldn't that make anyone who produces original code become more cautious of sharing it, being aware that it will just be fed into the "hive mind" and they'll never get any attribution or financial gain out of it?Or has the value of...

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Re:A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Alwa... on Saturday August 22, 2026 @01:32PM (#49401836)
To be completely frank, I'm scared of missing out on not learning the fundamentals properly and having this omission bite me in the back later in my career. I also think that AI can make terrible people "look good", and some filtering isn't too bad.
Re:A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Alwa... on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:57PM (#49401540)
I'm a pokemon
Re:A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Alwa... on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:50PM (#49401483)
OP here. I'm doing the same and I congratulate you for this. I also agree that AI is an incredibly powerful tool if used in the correct way, although I implemented a RAG and fed it with materials that I find qualitatively superior. Now it works even better.

Ask HN: Do we need a stronger process for vetting code?

Posted by zaksa on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @02:50AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Now that writing code is largely automated, I've seen Github being filled to the brims with slop, and it feels like the overall quality of everything produced with code (either the tooling or the software itself) has been getting worse. Pre-AI, times were a bit simpler: You looked at the stars, looked at the issues, poked around the code, and gave the repository a chance. Today there's just way...

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