Comment by neilv

I think the thieves you worry about are actually going steal your code through LLM laundering, without even knowing who it was stolen from.

If you're not going to do a startup with your code, you probably need to focus on a mix of learning and self-promotion. With the market prioritizing self-promotion. Which probably means just trying to make sure that code that reflects well on you, does so.

Which probably means making it it open source, even if AI training data companies will steal it and give it away.