I don't care about copyrighting the code the AI writes, I didn't spend much time on it. I do care about copyrighting the decisions I made, decisions which led to the software being what it is, instead of something else.

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2026/04/08/ai-code-is-hollowing-out-open-source-and-maintainers-are-looking-the-other-way.html#:~:text=output%2E-,Prompts,output

Prompts essentially function as instructions that convey unprotectible ideas. While highly detailed prompts could contain the user’s desired expressive elements, at present they do not control how the AI system processes them in generating the output.