[doug_durham]

At this point very little code is "novel". Everyone is simply rewriting code that has already been written in a similar form. The LLM isn't slurping up and restating code verbatim. It is taking code that it has seen thousands of times and generating a customized version for your needs. It's hubris to think that anyone here is generating "novel" code.

[clusterhacks]

I have seen the argument that very little code is novel but I find it inherently unsatisfying and lacking in nuance? I think what bugs me about is that if you squint hard enough, all programming reduces to "take some data, do something to it." That "something" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in the argument that "something" is or isn't novel.

Heck, if we think about it from the programming language perspective, all code is "simply" using already existing language functions to cobble together a solution to some specific set of requirements. Is no program novel?

There is probably a consideration here that maybe boils down to the idea of engineering vs artisanal craftsmanship and where a specific project falls in that spectrum . . .