• Alex@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    Where are you seeing the 2-10% figure?

    In my experience code generation is most affected by the local context (i.e. the codebase you are working on). On top of that a lot of code is purely mechanical - code generally has to have a degree of novelty to be protected by copyright.

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      21 hours ago

      Imagine how broken it would be otherwise. The first person to write a while loop in any given language would be the owner of it. Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

      • sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        Anyone else using the same concept would have to write an increasingly convoluted while loop with extra steps.

        Sounds like an origin story for recursion.