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AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions

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728 points freetonik | 1 comments | 21 Aug 25 18:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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neilv ◴[21 Aug 25 19:26 UTC] No.44976959[source]▶
There is also IP taint when using "AI". We're just pretending that there's not.

If someone came to you and said "good news: I memorized the code of all the open source projects in this space, and can regurgitate it on command", you would be smart to ban them from working on code at your company.

But with "AI", we make up a bunch of rationalizations. ("I'm doing AI agentic generative AI workflow boilerplate 10x gettin it done AI did I say AI yet!")

And we pretend the person never said that they're just loosely laundering GPL and other code in a way that rightly would be existentially toxic to an IP-based company.

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luma ◴[21 Aug 25 19:27 UTC] No.44976975[source]▶
Also ban StackOverflow and nearly any text book in the field.

The reality is that programmers are going to see other programmers code.

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1. neilv ◴[21 Aug 25 19:28 UTC] No.44976987[source]▶
Huge difference, and companies recognized the difference, right up until "AI" hype.