Technical community reflects on attribution standards when using AI
4 Nov 1 5:40 PM · 10d ago · 4 comments · 1 source · development 4 of 5
Discussion expanded to broader questions about attribution when developers use AI tools for system design, with commenters noting the absence of established norms for crediting prior work discovered through AI.
“I've been using AI to help with a lot of system designs work at $WORK lately… am I ripping someone else off without credit.”
quasi_qua_quasitypesanitizer Databricks Source Control engineerAnthropic AI companyRain Paharia Technical writer/analystDurham Goode Former Facebook Source Control team lead
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The matter aside, this post is really really well written.
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I feel like I learned a lot about both Scion and the rest of the source control space from this blog post, especially in comparison to what I learned from the Anthropic one.
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Certainly biased here, but seconded. Thanks so much for writing this, ~typesanitizer.
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I've been using AI to help with a lot of system designs work at $WORK lately (not directly, just "give me ideas for X, pick one, build it out, evaluate whether it works, etc etc etc") and this kind of thing has been on my mind a lot lately: am I ripping someone else off without credit. Like, I think the system I'm building on is different enough…
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