you are absolutely right. there is value to these in software engineering and the people who don’t realize that and learn how and when to apply them will be left behind

The irony here is if you host your open source project somewhere where it isn’t being scraped by LLMs your legal case might be weaker.

What an interesting idea

I think it might be hard to argue that it is a clean room implementation if the project is in the training data for the model, which it probably will have been