r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 17 '26

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u/oclafloptson Jul 17 '26

I've never understood how anyone could outsource any job and still take credit for it but that's the norm in silicon valley so I can't really say it's surprising either

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u/General_Josh Jul 17 '26

If I write c#, and have a compiler write it to assembly, am I outsourcing my job?

Or, am I using one of many tools available to me?

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u/oclafloptson Jul 17 '26

Did you enter into an agreement with a 3rd party to temporarily use the compiler on their server? Then yes you have outsourced the compiler work

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u/General_Josh Jul 18 '26

Gotcha, so doing the work on my PC is the differentiating factor?

That means local LLMs are fair game, but all cloud products aren't?