I am really confused by HN's response to copilot. It seems like before the twitter thread on it went viral, the only people who cared about programmers copying (verbatim!) short snippets of code like this would be lawyers and executives. Suddenly everyone is coming out of the woodworks as copyright maximalists?
I know HN loves a good "well actually" and Microsoft is always suspect, but let's leave the idea of code laundering to the Oracle lawyers. Let hackers continue to play and solve interesting problems.
Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down.
I know HN loves a good "well actually" and Microsoft is always suspect, but let's leave the idea of code laundering to the Oracle lawyers. Let hackers continue to play and solve interesting problems.
Copilot should be inspiring people to figure out how to do better than it, not making hackers get up in arms trying to slap it down.