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I wouldn't underestimate the coming arms race though, as developers find newer and more subtle poison pills to prevent rogue AIs from ingesting their code and regurgitating it later.

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If someone is poisoning and obfuscating their own code base, they become the only person who can contribute to it, defeating the point of being FOSS and benefiting from community contributions and review.

This is being downvoted, but it touches on a really interesting phenomena we may eventually see, a sort of "arms race" where people try to make their code useless to machine learning, but simultaneously make it useless to people with lower skills (people blindly copying/pasting code with little understanding types).

As the machine learning becomes "smarter", this bar will raise, and more people will be coincidentally excluded in an attempt to keep unwanted algorithms from sucking up code.

Assuming this sort of poison-pill thing ever becomes commonplace.

... or just not open-source code any more. This is the silent, and much worse outcome.

nobody's got time to make obfuscated code rather than solve actual problems

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