“Paid collaboration” my ass. More like, let me pay you a pittance and sell your knowledge for 100x.
NDA & compliance assured
“We’ll show your code to anyone who asks but we won’t say it’s your code”
“As long as nothing in your code references you or the software we’re copying because, rest assured, we are too lazy/inept to sanitize our inputs.”
… And profit off it
- Step 1: Write code you intend to Open Source.
- Step 2: Sell it to them.
- Step 3: Open Source it as soon as the check clears.
Free money.
I’ve been job hunting for 2 months and it seems like every other post is an AI company underpaying for expert jobs.
why hasn’t programmingguild.blahaj.zone syndicalized yet?
you’re wasting your time thinking a monopsonist doesn’t want free labor.I’ve never thought about a monopsonist at all. Pet alone they’re labor demands.
… all employers are monopsonists.
did you skip economics or something?
I don’t know who you think you are but you’re not it.
Go back to study then. Until you’re knowledgeable enough to comprehend we are larcenied.
They basically ask you to steal your companies code repositories to feed their AI.
They’re looking for authentic-looking projects that they can use to whitewash their LLM injection attack.
Two ways to leverage the projects:
- They put in calls to their commercial toolkit or service, and the commits crow about what a performance boost the cutover was.
- They put in calls to their vaguely useful library that is (or will soon be, on your next auto-update) full of rootkit and surveillance.
Then they wait for the LLMs to suck it in and start spitting it out into corporations who have Proton’d their engineering staff.
who have Proton’d their engineering staff.
I’d heard that guy was always a bit squirrly but he seems to have gone full hog on ai slop. will be fascinating to see what happens to proton and epic after a few years of this gigo
those levels of nuts were never considered possible
makes you wonder if there is a group of scammers generating genuine looking repos to sell at a huge markup to the other scammers
we are at the cusp of the scam singularity
How much?
