[Gigachad]

We have companies literally taking the whole Linux kernel and not following the license out there. There is no way the legal system gives a shit about AI generating the same textbook degrees_to_radians function.

Copilot never generated anything for me that would justify any kind of copyright.

[BeefWellington]

Conversely, we have Oracle suing Google successfully for billions over function and property names. Eventually the Supreme Court overturned the result but how many businesses want a fight that expensive?

It'll be highly dependent upon the type of output it generates.

I've played with it again recently because of the updates around disabling open code and such, and it still strikes me that it's not worth the potential risk.

Even setting aside the "could I get sued for this" question, the value just isn't there; half the time functions are just poorly written, inefficient, or buggy. For very simple actual math stuff (e.g.: a function to replicate any moderately complex spreadsheet function) it seems to work well. It seems to really struggle with common boilerplate stuff like simple HttpServer in Java, Flask blueprints, and so on. It may be bias due to the projects I've worked on, but I don't do a lot of my own implementations of calculating compounding interest rates, incredibly simple array slicing, or testing if a given number is prime.

[iostream24]

You mentioned Supreme Court, and I feel obligated to point out that one can literally now no longer speculate on what odd judgements they may now hand down.

They may find that SCO owns Linux for all we know… vote. Yesterday would have been ideal, but moving forward, remember to vote and remember which party hates common sense

[justin-tm]

Yeah, but that still feels like an edge case compared to the hundreds of small software assets produced by companies every day. In most cases those things don't even have the potential to get to an "Oh god we pissed off Oracle" size