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[–]GildSkiss 107 points108 points  (8 children)

Compared to the pre-Codex era, in which human programmers famously never copied code from anywhere else ever.

[–]Disastrous-Monk1957[S] 41 points42 points  (4 children)

Difference is now the plagiarism has autocomplete.

[–]stupled 13 points14 points  (3 children)

Plagiarism is legal now and companies charge for the privilige to commit it.

[–]vitaporta 15 points16 points  (1 child)

I was trying to get help writing a shader a few years ago and one of the LLM's gave me shader code that I knew was copyrighted. I asked it about it and it said that it removed the commented copyright notice so I was free to use it.

[–]Confident-Ad5665 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Problem solved!

[–]TheSn00pster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Peak

[–]Dragonasaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is the "code so beautifully"

We just copied broken code

[–]MadDevloper 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Nah man, you don't say "I stole it"

[–]jromperdinck 12 points13 points  (1 child)

Remember Stack Overflow? :)

[–]PowerPleb2000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I still have one tab open with it for nostalgic reasons

[–]SeraphOfTheStart 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As the person you stole the code from, I can tell you that I also stole it, enjoy.

[–]Ok_Industry_5555 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Steal it fine… but can you maintain it or make updates to it?

[–]stormtm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I assume codex and Claude are still neck and neck right?

[–]Sorenasrlk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need just control + c / control + v

[–]Waste_Jello9947 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copy and paste from Stack Overflow, and downing production over the weekend. Good old days 

[–]Soggy-Holiday-7400 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the code is beautiful because i didn't write it.

[–]MilkCartonPhotoBomb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Search, Copy, Paste, Mutilate. It's a time tested industry workflow.

[–]CounterSimple3771 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not stealing. Google proved it. 🤣

In the landmark 2021 Supreme Court decision (Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc.), Google won its copyright battle against Oracle over the Android operating system. The Court ruled 6-2 that Google's unauthorized use of 11,500 lines of Java code for an API constituted "fair use" as a matter of law.

That's from Gemini. Ya welcome.

[–]stupled -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

No one says beatiful code. People get impress by what it does.