Comment by simoncion
8 days ago
I expect any well-informed corporate lawyer that has thought about this carefully is strongly advising that these tools not be used. When the LLM [0] barfs up some nontrivial code that's covered by the AGPL and your company's devs put it into the company's "all rights reserved" codebase -entirely unaware of its provenance- it's going to be a nightmare to come back from that.
[0] ...that Nvidia's CEO says they should be spending 50% of a senior dev's salary per seat per year on...
The ship sailed on this a long time ago.
Oh definitely not. We're not yet solidly out of the "extremely exuberant hype" phase, so the folks that matter tend to not ask questions that dampen the mood.
Sorry to tell you friend, but LLMs have touched the vast majority of active codebases out there, whether you like it or not. You can tell yourself that you’re one of “the folks that matter” (lol) all you want, but we’re never going back.
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