@donaldball

Tell me it ain't so, all this hoop-de-doo about how AI gonna take yer jerbs.

Worry not and take ol' TM's evergreen advice: the machines will always handle the rules and the humans will handle the exceptions.

@jamie

Stop whining. You and about seventy zillion terrified sheep running around here bleating about the Terrible AI monster under the bed.

@jamie

.... how can you distinguish between 'em?

@oay @jamie

You do write spec first, yes?

@jamie

Shrug. Here's a tip - when you put up a para like this one: "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."

- I can make the observation you're being a Chicken Little. You guaranteed it.

@jamie

I can assure you, Jamie, whatever talents you may possess, possession of a Juris Doctor is not one of them. So do us all a favor and quit handing out what I believe to be so much Chicken Little-ing.

@jamie

Holy shit, dude, get a subscription to Claude and be thereby instructed. If you're a competent programmer, you will be asking the LLM for spec. If you're a dumbass, you'll be asking for implementation.

@jamie

You're attempting to say " If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*

I'll be gracious and say that's not what the law says, and if you want, I can be a jackass about this because it's not true and the last thing this place needs is yet another Chicken Little making absurd claims.

@jamie

For more information:

https://www.mcbrayerfirm.com/blogs-intellectual-property-blog,u-s-copyright-office-releases-part-2-of-copyright-and-artificial-intelligence-series-copyrightability-guidance

@jamie

The post takes real legal uncertainty and cranks it up to maximum alarm. The actual state of things is more nuanced and still evolving — courts are working through these questions case by case, and the Copyright Office indicated that a future may arise in which prompts could "sufficiently control expressive elements in AI-generated outputs to reflect human authorship."

So it's worth being thoughtful about this stuff, but "your vibe-coded repo is public domain" is not an accurate summary of the law.

@mcnado

Y'look at those pale blue eyes and realize he's not all there:

No matter how he tried, he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain

@helenpugh

Several surrender documents were signed. Stalin insisted on having his own separate ceremony.

@rufustheduck

He's trying to explain why

@lettosprey @catsalad

These ones will eat yer pets. For a schnack.

@gsymon @thomholwerda

If Trump told the truth, even inadvertently, now that would be newsworthy.

@MostlyHarmless

True story. Elon Musk at SpaceX. Elon hired Gwynne Shotwell, brilliant, competent, certainly the smartest thing Elon Musk ever did, to hire her.

Shotwell wrapped him in a nice cocoon of being told what he wants to hear - and otherwise ignoring his other babblings.

@mynameistillian @lokeloski

The machines can deal with the rules and the humans will always be better at handling the exceptions.

@paninid @benroyce

"Inspiration move me brightly
Light the song with sense and color
Hold away despair
More than this I will not ask
Faced with mysteries dark and vast
Statements just seem vain at last
Some rise, some fall, some climb
To get to Terrapin"

Truth is, Ben, I'll be glad to be gone.

@benroyce

Y'know what might make a difference, roust out our gerontocratic Democratic leadership - now those folks have no grasp of reality. How about not-voting for them?

@benroyce

No, it's policy. We decide to tell people not to come here, don't do business here - how will that get more people to vote for reasonable candidates?

It won't and we both know it.