Speeding up others' scientific code with AI needs community norms on attribution
jmschreiber91 · x · 2026-10-11
Developer jmschreiber91 argues that taking someone else's code, speeding it up with AI, and releasing it under your own name should be shunned by the community. Fast implementations are valuable, but how to handle rewrites is as much a social issue as an engineering one — original authors deserve as much credit as possible.
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