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New comment by dgellow in "Who owns the code?"

dgellow — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:39:04 +0000

Are you sure uncopyeightable and public domain is the same?

New comment by dgellow in "Who owns the code?"

dgellow — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:36:52 +0000

What do you mean by « that argument has been made in Germany »? Any link I could read?

New comment by dgellow in "Who owns the code?"

dgellow — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:30:03 +0000

Yep, I’ve been saying that for years, developing AGI put you in a horrible ethical and legal situation

New comment by dgellow in "Who owns the code?"

dgellow — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:29:09 +0000

No, we don’t know for a fact that an LLM code output is copyrightable. You own the prompt, that’s something you created. For the LLM output it’s not clear, that’s the point open to debate, it isn’t settled

New comment by dgellow in "Who owns the code?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:21:06 +0000

I removed that part from the submission title, I agree it’s a bit too click-baity

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dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:12:09 +0000

> Code is bytes of text on disk

Not at all, code is the implementation of an idea. The support/encoding is irrelevant. A human creation is protected by copyright. In the case of prompting an LLM, the human creation is the prompt, the LLM does author the implementation. But it’s not known what happens to the ownership of the LLM generated code

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:44:01 +0000

You mean azure agents? Sorry, azure copilots?

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:42:41 +0000

GitHub is unstable since around 2020

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:42:12 +0000

I don’t think their engineers « learn the codebase » anymore, that’s so 2025. It’s all agentic now, the model learns the codebase, the engineer ask the agents to do their best and believe in themselves

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:40:06 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if that tweet response you got was written by an LLM

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:37:50 +0000

No they don’t? They don’t need to do anything. It’s a forum, not a formal debate performance

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:35:07 +0000

This is the reason, at least what I know from people who worked there, the azure migration has been very painful as far as I’m aware

New comment by dgellow in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:32:45 +0000

It was related to their migration to Azure as far as I know

New comment by dgellow in "Show HN: HashNotch – Premium AI Integrated Dynamic Island for the Mac OS"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:30:45 +0000

Please don’t use AI to generate your HN posts and comments

New comment by dgellow in "LLMs .what do you smoke beforehand?"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:23:18 +0000

That level of trolling is an art form. Just beautifully executed, kudos

Who owns the code?

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:21:30 +0000

Article URL: https://whoownsthecode.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353603

Points: 36

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New comment by dgellow in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:13:23 +0000

You don’t even need a “gut based” server. Git doesn’t care about the transport

New comment by dgellow in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:10:12 +0000

Git also just work. The issue is the host platform, not the CVS

New comment by dgellow in "Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:16:01 +0000

That’s why we don’t vote for the fascist who attempted to coup its way to power

New comment by dgellow in "Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows"

dgellow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:15:06 +0000

“Annoying” is more than euphemistic