Why doesn't anyone romanticize coders? AI era's double standard on protecting work
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-22
Rex Douglass offers a sharp observation: nobody values or romanticizes code or coders — you can torch the entire software industry without citing anything, yet scooping a tenured professor's 100-year-old problem makes you a monster.
The quoted discussion also notes LLMs were trained on all the world's code, yet "plagiarism" concerns only cut one way.
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