the knowledge gained along the path of producing such software less so.
I'm not sure what the current state of the art is in NDAs but the last few of my friends that landed a job at Google 1 basically had to sign their ideas away. Cynically put: if you have an awesome idea on a Sunday night while you masturbate under the shower, it's goog's IP.
Very soon, employees will want to bring their own agents to the workplace without losing ownership of the agent to their employer, whilst employers will want to manage and mitigate the risks of unknown agents running riot in the workplace.
I don't think any of this is very likely to come to pass.
I'd totes do this. It would be a hard requirement. 2
I don't want to guard my knowledge, I want other people to interact with my ideas
I've personally done a little back-and-forth on this because it can be infuriating when someone uses your code and then uses your name to buy credibility for their product. "Look this app is super awesome because it uses <opti's library>." Kinda sucks. But I think AI actually fixes this because ultimately no one will care anymore who coded what, #noheroes. 3 I think this is actually for the better. Hero devs are an awful phenomenon and it almost always ends up in people making bad decisions based on the fame of a person.
I don't understand how [I can] stop anyone from owning my knowledge
Well... it'd be sucky if a patent troll would C&D your own idea from you. So maybe this is the final straw for the idea that ideas and knowledge can be owned. I'd not cry if that were the ultimate outcome of LLMs and AI training on pirated stuff.
Footnotes
Now that I think about it, Google hiring someone I know didn't happen in a while. The hiring freeze is probably real for a few years now. ↩
But then, I also refuse to carry client's hardware or hang my clean machine on their dirty, dirty wifi - something that always causes light conflict. ↩
If you browse the comments at phoronix re: RISC-V stuff (#1076180) then it becomes clear that #noheroes is real. Even Linus probably wouldn't be immune to being disposed of without his tm. ↩
<opti's library>." Kinda sucks. But I think AI actually fixes this because ultimately no one will care anymore who coded what,#noheroes. 3 I think this is actually for the better. Hero devs are an awful phenomenon and it almost always ends up in people making bad decisions based on the fame of a person.Footnotes
#noheroesis real. Even Linus probably wouldn't be immune to being disposed of without his tm. ↩