He’s building images for a specific SBC, not trying to merge any code in the Haiku code base, so I fail to see your concerns.
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Finally, someone gets it. Anyway, I find it extremely amusing that this is filed under “Proprietary” when all of my scaffolding is MIT. The bias is amazing.
FYI, regarding code leakage - that happened in the early days, and well before modern model training techniques and QA eliminated it. SOTA models these days come with massive IP protection guardrails that sometimes even prevent them from quoting reference works like books and documentation directly, so I suggest you get acquainted with the current state of affairs and how both Anthropic and OpenAI have been steadily improving on that.
As someone who also looks at on-device inference, I have also seen small “local” models go down that same path (partly to comply with concerns, partly because they simply cannot hold much more than generic patterns to recall due to their size).
But some open weight models (like Deepseek) are… interesting in that regard. I don’t use those for actual work.
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Tbh, I very much doubt we will see them in the IT/development domain. By now, there’s LLM generated/assisted code in Linux kernel, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD (and no doubts that macOS and Windows also use LLM generated code). Everyone will have to sue everyone else, and we will have to shutdown the whole Internet if somebody wants to revert it. My prediction, it’s not going to happen, but let’s check in a year.
Fwiw, it’s not that hard to train LLM models on a specific set of open-source projects with permissive licenses. There are The Stack dataset and The Software Heritage License Dataset (2022 Edition).
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Unfortunately the world contains people like Darl McBride, who you may recall sued IBM over code that he claimed belonged to SCO Group.
Whether or not a case has merit is of no interest to such people. They hope that their victims will settle out of court to avoid wasting time on a protracted law suit.
And American lawyers are a species of land-based shark that are always hungry.
So I expect law-suits.