It'll be interesting to see what happens when a company pisses off an employee to the point where that person creates a public repo containing all the company's AI-generated code. I guarantee what's AI-generated and what's human-written isn't called out anywhere in the code, meaning the entire codebase becomes public domain.

While the company may have recourse based on the employment agreement (which varies in enforceability by state), I doubt there'd be any on the basis of copyright.

FWIW I'm not a lawyer and I'm not recommending that you do this. 😄 Even if companies have no legal standing on copyright, their legal team will try it. It *will* cost you money.

But man, oh man, I'm gonna have popcorn ready for when someone inevitably pulls this move.

@tuban_muzuru You find that alarming? I meant it like "Holy shit, this is an interesting thing I hadn't considered."

And it's not an absurd claim. It's pretty much exactly what someone will say in court.

@tuban_muzuru My company pays for both Claude and Cursor. I use both and my team discusses these tools daily.

I'm also very familiar with how LLMs work down to a mechanical level. I've trained models from scratch with code I wrote by hand and used those models to do some pretty neat things.

I assure you, you don't have a leg up on me in this discussion.

@tuban_muzuru I don't have a JD, that's correct. I do, however, have two siblings that do and this entire thread came out of a conversation with one of them.

And no, I will do you no favors. You came into *my* mentions. I had no idea you existed 40 minutes ago. So I owe you nothing. You'll just have to find a way to accept that I will continue posting my thoughts on my own account on my own server.

@tuban_muzuru Buddy, you're the only one that's been whining this whole time. Whining about what I said, whining about "get a Claude subscription".

I was literally talking about "I'm gonna have popcorn ready". I don't know how you read fear from that.

It seems more like you feel attacked because someone criticized AI. You've been the only one alarmed in this whole thread.