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US copyright office seems to say anything written by AI cannot be copyrighted. Also a work that does not disclose which parts are AI generated cannot be copyrighted. All open source licences and creative commons are based on copyright. If you do not own the copyright you cannot release code under MIT.

As far as I can tell no one is labeling which parts of code used AI. Most devs I know are using Chat GPT at least for inspiration in solving problems. Pretty sure soon almost every file will have snippets of AI code. Companies have little control to stop this. So to me it looks like every company is unknowingly making its codebase public domain.

Open AI caches its responses so can scan private codebases to know which use AI. Copilot also knows which codebases use AI. If they find a codebase that uses AI but does not disclose where it is used then that codebase can be used for further AI training. Major companies will need to use copilot x, vscode and github to remain competitive. So microsoft could end up sucking up all the proprietary knowledge of every industry.


Competitive at what? Templating?


I did something very similar to this in 2012:

http://philholden.me.uk/kraya/routemap/

I wanted to simply draw and SVG of the bus route map. The timetable had the lat long of stop positions. I was using d3 so having drawn the map it almost zero effort to animate the busses. It was just a standard transition with a delay and a duration.


Glad to hear was considering moving to Deno Deploy + Supabase because KV was not good for relationships.


I would be very interested if there was a decentralized version of Cloudflare Workers. Doing for compute what IPFS does for files with CF workers web like API (KV Store and Durable Objects).


If you publish your module versions on IPFS that would provide a guarantee to your users the module versions do not change once published. But hashes are not very memorable as module names.


> If you publish your module versions on IPFS...

Well, using message digests, NPM or Yarn can pretty much guarantee content addressable versions, too. Do not have to use IPFS or blockchains, just because...


Tanay Pratap talks us through the thought process behind building a tiny email client and serving markets where slow network connections are common.



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