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Wow… What browser do you use? The medium site is doing this?

Yes!

We believe that in order to improve something, you need to measure it.

For a long time, engineering was running on vibes and was the only department without KPIs. I understand that performance (ETV) is just one piece of the puzzle and that it is much more important to build the right things, but to start figuring out this problem, you need to understand the story behind the commit. If you understand the story, you can tie it to plans (OKRs, epics, Jira tickets, etc.). We are actually doing that, but it is not used for this research.

Wow, yes sir! I was using Claude to write faster. But I understand. Thanks for the note.

Filing isn't the gate, registration is.

Copyright Office requires you to disclose AI involvement and disclaim the AI-generated parts. Zarya of the Dawn is the example — applicant filed for the whole graphic novel, got partial registration on the human-written text, refused on the Midjourney images. The reproducibility of the prompt isn't really the test. The test is whether a human made the expressive choices.

Fair point on temp-0. But I don't think determinism is what the courts will hang it on. A deterministic LLM still makes the expressive choices — naming, structure, control flow — that the human didn't make. The image cases didn't turn on whether you could re-roll the same Midjourney frame. They turned on who made the creative decisions. Same logic should hold for code.

This is the same shape as the image cases.

Zarya of the Dawn already settled it for Midjourney output: human-written elements were protected, AI-generated images were not. The character design didn't get copyright even though the human picked, prompted, and curated. Code isn't different. Prompting Claude to produce a function is closer to prompting Midjourney to produce a frame than to writing the function yourself.

The reason it feels different to engineers is that we're used to thinking of the compiler as the analogy. But a compiler is deterministic — same input, same output. An LLM isn't. That's the line the Copyright Office is drawing, and image cases got there first.