Stallman: "Oh man, not like this."
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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how can you tell if it's AI generated? you can't
The same way you tell if it's copy & pasted from Stackoverflow or some other search result!
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Oh darn, our CEO told us to use LLMs to write all this code, and now the good parts might be used for something that helps people. Not our copyrights!
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You willing to take on Microsoft lawyers to find out?
Is this how it works? I would be shocked if this was actually how it works.
Nah, laws being like they are the copyright probably belongs to whatever cartel owns the bot you used to perpetrate the code, because fuck human people, that's why, laws are for corporations' benefit, not for yours.
Something something "Those the law binds but does not protect and those the law protects but does not bind."
That's terrible news. There's no way I want my code to be open source. Then other people would see just how much spaghetti you can have in a codebase and still have it run.
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Anything built by AI/LLMs should be FOSS by law. Oh I dream of the day.
Your wish is granted.
But you can only view the source code through an LLM
a finger on the monkey paw curls
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windows engineers have probably been copying snippets from stackoverflow for decades, which may have been copied from the kernel or some other copyleft product
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This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The Al-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.
I license my vibe-coded projects with the MIT license, so it's working either way.