> Nobody has every detail of all of them memorized. That was never the requirement, you've made it up to avoid addressing the real argument > So if copying a

> Nobody has every detail of all of them memorized. That was never the requirement, you've made it up to avoid addressing the real argument > So if copying a useful piece of code from Stack Overflow has always been acceptable, Not really, the thing you partially hide in "useful" is the quality assessment. Blindly copy&pasting code was "never" "acceptable" > why would asking a machine to produce that code be fundamentally different? Because the previous premise is wrong, but also this one - it will be different code with different tradeoffs, at least try to make any argument why the situations are identical