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I mostly use third party LLMs like I would StackOverflow: Don't post company code there verbatim, …

… I mostly use third party LLMs like I would StackOverflow: Don't post company code there verbatim, make an isolated example. And also don't paste from SO verbatim. I tried other ways of using LLMs for programming a few times in personal projects and can't say I worry about lower productivity with these limitations. YMMV. (All this also generally goes for employees with typical employment contracts: It's probably a contract violation.)

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distancesHN

I also kind of don't understand how it seems everyone is using AI for coding. I haven't had a client yet which would have approved any external AI usage. So I basically use them as search engines on steroids, but code can't go directly in or out.

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distancesHN

Yes these are indeed the points. I don't really care too much, it would make me a bit more efficient but I'm billing by the hour anyway so I'm completely fine playing by the book.

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genghisjahnHN

What about 10 years ago when we all copied code from SO? Did we worry about copyright then? Maybe we did and I don’t recall.

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jstummbilligHN

Nobody is seriously disputing the ownership of AI generated code. A serious dispute would be a considerable, concerted effort to stop AI code generation in any jurisdiction, that provides a contrast to the enormous , ongoing efforts by multiple large players with eye-watering investments to make code generation bigger and better. Note, that this is not a statement about the fairness or morality of LLM building, but to think that the legality of AI code generation is something to reasonably worry about, is betting against multiple large players and their hundreds of billions of dollars in investment right now, and that likely puts you in a bad spot in reality.

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This comes down to a question of what one can prove. NNs are necessary not explainable and none of this would have much evidence to show in court.

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