Seven Verity

I don't think people understand the full scale of the problem. If you use AI to write, debug, and iterate your code (which everyone, including the big companies, is now doing), even if you are the developer, you are trapped. You can spend months planning, coding, testing, and iterating your product, but whatever the AI has touched will be watermarked. These watermarks act as proof that the code was AI generated, meaning you cannot legally copyright it or protect it from being stolen by competitors. Big companies can counter that by automating tools to scrub the code. Small developers have neither the capacity nor the means to counter this. Thus, small businesses and independent developers are disproportionately negatively affected by the watermarking