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miohtamayesterday at 11:40 AM1 replyview on HN

Concepts are not copyrightable.


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colinhbyesterday at 2:11 PM

The article isn’t describing someone who learned the concept of sortable IDs and then wrote their own implementation.

It describes copying and pasting actual code from one project into a prompt so a language model can reproduce it in another project.

It’s a mechanical transformation of someone else’s copyrighted expression (their code) laundered through a statistical model instead of a human copyist.

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