Comment by imiric

5 months ago

> why hasn't anyone done this for real?

WDYM? LLMs are essentially this.

Most LLMs are trained on a lot of the source code for many open-source projects. This 'project' has the whole song-and-dance about never seeing the source code and separating the system to skirt around legal trouble. Why didn't anyone do that yet?

  • Because that's impossible. Any "robot" that can generate code must be trained on massive amounts of code, most of which is open source.

For each project you want to rip off, you'd have to first train an entirely new LLM on all sources except for the target project. Prohibitively expensive.