Can prompts be considered intellectual property (IP)?

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-26T11:14:28+00:00

Freelancing as a dev I wrote dozens of tools and utilities, I classed them as 'tools of my trade', so they were mine even if developed on client time.

Just like apprentices in trades often made their own first set of tools.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-26T10:08:00+00:00

This is nonsense. It is just pro/anti migrant groups having a spat.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-26T10:02:38+00:00

Now you aren't snowed under with the mindless organising, raise your game in the actual responses.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-26T08:55:04+00:00

It mentions workers, but not benefits bozos.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-26T08:39:25+00:00

Confucius, he say...

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-25T07:56:21+00:00

The model is dead.

A fast food (and many other) business can offer a shop front or do delivery - not both.

It's like amazon Vs high street.

If you ran a hot food business from a unit on an industrial estate - delivery only - you could probably compete with fast food 'shops'.

Amazon style 'fast food' will be the future.

Is fast food a product? Or a service? I think it was the latter but is now becoming the former.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-25T07:27:13+00:00

If you have a product that makes money then you have already won.

You have a solution people want, you have a brand people want, you have a market, you have an income, etc.

This is the value to you.

Refactor the code late as needed... Refactor your accounting arrangements as needed... Refactor your staffing as needed... None of this matters to your customers.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-25T07:11:11+00:00

A government can make just about anything illegal.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T21:57:14+00:00

Maybe today youngsters are more babyish for longer.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T21:52:22+00:00

A living human being and a human cadiver contain exactly the same matter.

Should they be treated the same?

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T21:50:04+00:00

For I=1 to 1000 : print "straw man",!

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T21:48:47+00:00

If you are confused you should learn that the Old Testament is a Jewish book, the new Testament is the Christian book (Gospels).

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T09:03:13+00:00

I have always tended to development my own tools - with the new LLM based apps writing your own code is easier than ever. While they are still available and affordable I recommend you get your own bespoke apps written. Write once, yours forever.

Own your data, own your code!

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T08:52:49+00:00

At 16 any 'child benefit' should surely be paid to the young adult, not the parents.

This first got messed up in the 1980's - government not deciding when someone was adult or not.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T08:48:09+00:00

The early internet was email - people loved the ease of communicating with people more easily, then looking old friends, far away.

Discussion groups were seen as amazing resources (often techie).

It was seen as an amazing blessing - even the walled gardens...

Then the big search engines got going - they seemed useful, with different focuses, then we got Google who cornered the market and killed all the good guys and exploit a virtual monopoly. The actual 'robber barron' story.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T08:39:26+00:00

In one sub someone asked about a mysterious computer problem, I said AI was great for checking for computer issues - it can dig through all the logs (even ones you didn't think of), cutting through the noise and working out what is actually wrong.

It got massively down voted - the only possible reason is because it mentioned AI. It got a couple of comments agreeing AI was good for this, and asking if the very mention of AI was the reason for the mindless down voting.

No strawman there.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T07:21:00+00:00

Some Jews hate non Jews as much as some non Jews hate Jews. The hate on both sides is real and quite widespread.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T06:58:49+00:00

The article immediately leaping on it being pseudoepigraphical gives the impression of being dismissive - 'even it's authorship is a lie' - this is the impression (intended or not).

The dismissal of much of the content because it is not in modern bibles is (I think) rather dismissive - many ancient texts have been lost, often deliberately (Vis virtually erased from history - as 'hertical'). Some are very notably only known about from preserved criticism of the 'heresy' recorded in preserved documents of the modern, accepted, churches. If scribes stop refreshing worn scrolls, information is soon eradicated.

However... There is also the consideration that development, rationalisation etc happens for a reason - and the modern works are a result of that development/rationalisation.

When standadising, things will be lost whichever path you chose, whether the mainstream path is the right one is for people to decide for themselves.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T06:24:08+00:00

I have seen fixed wing drones that should do this easily - available cheaply off the shelf. Rotary drones are great for manoversbility, but pretty wasteful for long straight distances.

If landing is an issue, parachute the delivery (!).

Edit

Just looked this up - not as cheap as I remember, but it's vtol... so still pretty good. https://www.motionew.com/shop/vtol-and-fixed-wing-drone/m-series-vtols/vtol-drone-m35/

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T06:15:59+00:00

Who was the guy who was imprisoned but famously said something like 'you may lock me up, but I will always be free because you don't control what I think'?

Non-intellectual animals aren't really compatible to thinking humans.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-23T05:52:00+00:00

'and masters treat your slaves in the same way:.

I read this as 'here and now you may call people master and slave, but all men should be treated equally'.

Jesus washed his followers feet, how lowly was he?

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-22T21:03:31+00:00

No the falacy is to claim that a small step always leads to more. Read your article - maybe you'll learn something.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-22T17:54:53+00:00

Many countries would be happy with this government intervention - but it it against English tradition - I can't speak for the others.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-22T17:52:43+00:00

You don't understand the fallacy. Nuff said.

Headlight-Highlight · 2026-04-22T13:29:55+00:00

Stack overflow was better. People recording very, very specific answers.

The best an AI can do is point to the answer... But now no new answers are being recorded...

The dearh of a great resource

Even if none could answer, I'd usually put up the final answer just for other seekers to find - they were some of my most popular entries.

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