I hope I don't sound rude for saying this, but "relic of another era" isn't how I'd describe the time before LLMs.
We're very much still in the same era as back then. I hope every dev realizes by now that there's no meaningful difference between a git clone back then and using LLMs now.
Projects like yours contributed to the source "training data". It's only plagiarism when people didn't publish their source with this intent.
I get what you mean and I agree but I wanted to highlight the difference between this and all the vibe coded games opus 5.5 can one shot
Yes NLP has come a long way and LLMs allow easier "searching" of the solution.
The one shot results vary in quality because in order for the result to align with something good, you're playing a guessing game which description(s) match the desired output. Needing to know what's on both sides of the curtain is in some ways potentially double the effort of not bothering with an LLM in the first place.
It's also for this reason I'm skeptical of the more "specialized" models. They're basically inflatable bumpers on the bowling lanes mapping to limited outputs that might not even be as good as the training source. Might as well just give me the github link at that point and we're right back to copypasta in the 2010s.
> I hope every dev realizes by now that there's no meaningful difference between a git clone back then and using LLMs now.
Um… conscious intent? History? Integrity? Attribution?
> It's only plagiarism when people didn't publish their source with this intent.
Yes. And they didn’t. Unless they were public domain (which most libre projects chose not to be), they absolutely didn’t and I can’t begin to imagine how you arrived at your conclusion.
> I hope every dev realizes by now that there's no meaningful difference between a git clone back then and using LLMs now.
There is a difference between running a command to copy someone else's entire project (which you might then do whatever with, including manually building on top of or copying things from), and running a prompt to generate a new project (which you're then going to consider "your own").