Comment by yibers
4 hours ago
We did the same as devopers before Claude. We would copy paste from stack overflow. Now this process is heavily automated.
4 hours ago
We did the same as devopers before Claude. We would copy paste from stack overflow. Now this process is heavily automated.
> Now this process is heavily automated.
And comes with a price tag paid to people who neither own nor generated that content. You don't think that shifts the ethical boundaries _significantly_?
...from answers that were publicly shared without license. It's not the same thing, even though every LOVES to make this argument.
Also: Over the past 20 years, I could count the number of times on one hand that I was been able to get away with out-right copy/paste from SO.
Stackoverflow code has a license (not per post, but a blanket one depending on which year - https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing it's mostly CC BY-SA.) I've written corporate policies that emphasize that you can learn from SO answers, but (as you point out) they basically never fit exactly - and you should include a link to the original so when the next Ubuntu LTS breaks your clever hack, we can see if someone has already posted a fix :-)