Makes me wonder if at some point we’ll have bots that have forked every open source project, and every agent writing code will prioritize those forks over official ones, including showing up first in things like search results.
I genuinely believe that all open source projects with restrictive or commercially-unviable licenses will be cloned by LLM translation in the next few years. Since the courts are finding that its OK for GenAI to interpret copyrighted works of art and fiction in their outputs, surely that means the end of legal protection for source code as well.
"Rewrite of this project in rust via HelperBot" also means you get a "clean room" version since no human mind was influenced in its creation.
