- Published on August 20, 2025
- In AI Features
Developers Never Owned Their Code, AI Just Made That Obvious
‘In terms of accountability, this is down to the whole development team, not the developer who wrote the code.’
Image by Nalini Nirad
- By Ankush Das
When generative AI tools started producing code at scale, questions emerged around developer agency, control, and ownership. Who owns the code when a chatbot generates it? Did developers previously own the code? Is there a change in the narrative with generative AI in the scene?
Developers were never truly in control of their code to begin with, believes Attila Vago, staff engineer at Prezi. “Truth be told, we’ve all been writing abandonware for many years,” Vago wrote in his recent Medium blog post.
“We just needed AI to make it acutely obvious to everyone who hadn’t realised that yet.”
Vago’s view may be divisive, but it is hardly unconsidered. “All the A/B tests you ran over the last year, 80% of those are dead code,” he wrote. “Your GitHub account is
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Ankush Das
I am a tech aficionado and a computer science graduate with a keen interest in AI, Coding, Open Source, Global SaaS, and Cloud. Have a tip? Reach out to ankush.das@aimmediahouse.com
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