[giardini]

jmalicki says many things, among them being

"As a side gig, I write novel software that solves problems no existing software does,"

and

"Yes, they are hiring the experts themselves. To create new knowledge above and beyond what's on the internet. To be locked away as LLM training data."

More likely you're joking and/or paranoid!8-))

[nomel]

> I write novel software that solves problems no existing software does

This is actually really easy to do if you step out of web/gui/crud and into something where you won't find public code, most ever, because it's trade secret. For example, manufacturing.

[jmalicki]

There is also an endless fountain of things you come across every day and think "oh, wouldn't this complex solution to this low priority problem be cool", but noone ever implements it because it's too complex and the problem is low priority.

Anyone writing software for long enough has a long list of these things in the back of their head that are great fodder for LLM training data.

[knollimar]

I make a trello board to direct spare tokens at when I'm bored now!

[jmalicki]

I wish our actual world wasn't an implausible scifi novel!