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AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
The author of Java testing tool jqwik, Johannes Link, added an Anti-AI Usage Clause to prohibit AI coding agents from using his project. A message in the tool's output instructed AI agents to delete jqwik tests and code, causing disruptions for AI developers who ignored the project's warnings.
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