To me the very term “vibe coding” describes a certain lack of understanding of what is generated. If you’re getting by on vibes, you probably aren’t actually steering the ship.
I don’t think A.I. coding tools are inherently bad, but not understanding what your code actually does (or even what it is supposed to do) definitely is.
Do the original devs get any credit? Or just the ones who stole their work to train on? Seems unfair.
Unlike art, there are strict definitions of “best things” in practical programming: Readability, speed, ease of use (in final product), and more stuff but I don’t know. And source code, is usually just duplications of source code in the past that achieve those things, group into a single project. So if every stolen code was illegal, then bigger than 95% of programmers are criminals
There are competitions about the most unique source code (obfuscated C code), but most of them are just for shits and giggles, not to put in practice at all
TLDR: Programming is mainly putting all the good things together, and depend on the time, there is only one best thing, for different categories: Readability, speed,… . Programming doesn’t aim for code originality, but there are competitions about it for shits and giggles
The real discussion we should be having is that copyrights are a cancer and need to be abolished.
Can we and would it be wanted?
tbh imo it might be a good thing if we can take some proprietary blob, let an LLM reverse engineer and “reimplement” the original code and make that be free software. though i highly doubt that would be the case because it doesn’t benefit corporate asshats.
