Yes, this copyright stripping as you call it, or really whether IP covering software has any practical value in the future. I'm sure people will sue one another regardless and the courts and lawyers (all assisted by AI) will have long protracted fights over it. May the best AI win, etc. But the kernel of the idea is that you can, today, literally just ask a model to write softwre for you. With your voice. In plain English. Open source is kind of cheating a bit because its source is open, but there it is already trivial. I have a small codebase that already has a Bash and C equivalent version to do the same thing - take some input data and transform it into some output data. The C version is naturally 3x as many lines of code, and about 100x as fast, just like you'd expect. I asked a model to create the same program in Lua, Python, Rust, and Go. I've never written nor even really seen a line of Rust or Go code in my life. A few minutes later, there they were, all working perfectly well just like the original versions. No feedback loop, no needing to check in about anything, it just wrote out the code and called it a day. Bigger software projects are of course more complex, but software is not mysterious in any way. Not like we're needing to research biological processes or anything. AI knows pretty much how everything works and has examples of it all. I'm not saying it could one-shot a re-envisioning of Windows, but it would be amusing to see how far it got without any help.