It’s not called plagiarism, it’s called inheritance
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2025
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When I was in college, in a network programming class we had a semester final coding assignment. I forget now what all it was supposed to do, but I do recall my friend in the same class spent a week of free time writing his. I forgot about the assignment completely until he asked me how it was going for me a few hours before it was due. With no other options, I simply punched in a example program from the textbook, replaced about 10 lines in the middle and tested.
It seemed to work. So, I very clearly labeled which code was mine, and which was copied, so that I technically wasn't doing a plagiarism. Then I turned it in, and hoped for the best. I got a 100 on it. My friend was pissed, because he only got a 99.
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You don't need to plagiarize code, just use software libraries.
That would be plagiarism in an academic / essay writing sense. I can't write an essay and just insert the entirety of book written by someone else in the middle of it.
Sure you can. You just have to properly cite it.
I feel like half the "timesavings" of AI could have been done better by someone making a code library that is actually organized.
Not even well organized... Just organized.
It’s all from one person posting on stackoverflow.
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nvm I figured it out
All the code has already been written, and building software is about piecing together stack overflow posts.
Discuss.
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If the inventor of the web didn’t want to copy things he wouldn’t have made it plaintext.
Ah yes. The bootstrap paradox code. Self created. Blessed be.