If you don't like the productivity boost AI gives programmers, how do you feel about the productivity boost that open source gives programmers?
I would argue that the open source community is responsible for WAY more of a free/cheap productivity boost for programmers than generative AI, and we've been providing that productivity boost for decades.
Open source mostly enhances devops productivity. AI directly plagiarizes. I do not see anything wrong with not having to write your own shell, but regurgitating laundered code and algorithms is wrong and should be illegal.
With AI the original authors do not even get credit, with open source they do.
If a human plagiarizes open source directly, it is also wrong. Even then, the scale of theft is limited to one person and not happening on an industrial scale.
I would argue that the open source community is responsible for WAY more of a free/cheap productivity boost for programmers than generative AI, and we've been providing that productivity boost for decades.