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@hopeless @tomgag Given the number of programmers I know who are scrambling to fix vibe-coded crap, I am deeply skeptical. Programming's not rocket science, but it does require some degree of skill/knowledge/contextual awareness.

@bjb @hopeless @tomgag I think it's definitely witholding pertinent information from potential users/customers, though I don't think that's a legal issue. (Maybe license violation, in some cases?) If there was an attempt to file copyright on AI drafted material, then that would be a problem. But the only test case I'm aware of--comic with a human-written script + AI art--had an easily defined (and disclosed) divide between human work and slop.

@hopeless @tomgag And there's already an older GPL-licensed project (Meshtastic). So this is not just a case of .co.uk/.io competing with each other in a niche space.

@hopeless @tomgag Not if the code is crap. (Aside from the numerous people who will eschew it for ethical reasons or out of the assumption that it is crap.) And one dude trying to QA code that he wrote with prompts, presumably because he doesn't know how to write the code in the first place, seems like a recipe for failure. (Heck, projects that are just one dude who *does* know what he's doing are chancy because they're a single point of failure, which the non-TM team is not.)

@bjb @hopeless @tomgag Not currently.

But trademark law is a different animal. And in any case, it's presumably just the name, and maybe the wordmark, at issue, so I don't think a vibe-coded product would matter. (IANAL)