Soon owning will be impossible

"AI is already now able to speed up the development of new software by a factor of - maybe - ten. Current LLM based systems do this mainly by using software patterns, methods and ideas they have seen during training. But they can be used to steal other people's code even much more aggressively: they are capable of transpiling source code into a different programming language which, if done properly, removes in many cases enough character from the code to make the generated code count as new."

"Code can be compiled into some sort of intermediate code first. This preserves the functionality of the software but removes the know-how of how to create the software to a large extent (comments, variable names etc.). This intermediate code can then, using knowledge about the application, decompiled into novel source code in any language."

"Ultimately this means that soon software cannot be owned at all anymore. Anybody who gets access to the application in any form, can recreate a new version out of it which is freed from copyright."

SaaS company stock prices have declined due to expectations that AI will soon produce software tools at minimal cost. This signals broader economic disruption if intelligence becomes abundant. AI currently accelerates software development tenfold through pattern recognition. More significantly, AI can transpile code between languages, decompile binaries to intermediate code, and regenerate source code in any language while removing identifying characteristics. This process effectively strips copyright protection from software. Open-source code can be converted into proprietary-appearing code, but such code loses value when anyone can replicate it instantly. Software distributed in binary form becomes particularly vulnerable to this recreation process, making traditional software ownership economically unviable.

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