As predicted, it’s happening: the end of copyright for all software

The big breakthrough here is that AI does all the hard work required for “clean room” reverse engineering. Historically, this was an extremely slow and costly process, which meant that it was only carried out for major projects where the benefits would be correspondingly great. AI means the cost and effort of doing so has dropped by many orders of magnitude, making all kinds of new projects feasible for the first time, including producing clones of major software packages.

On Walled Culture.