AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter
The author of Java property-testing tool jqwik did not want AI coding agents using his project. So he told them not to.
Then he went one step further: he added a message to the tool's output telling those agents to delete jqwik tests and code.
Human developers who had read the project's terms and warnings were unlikely to be affected. Bots ingesting raw output were another matter.
Jqwik is a tool for property-based testing of Java apps. Its author, Johannes Link, is a staunch AI skeptic,and at the start of the year published a lengthy article about how he considers the tech unethical. As such, he added a clear warning to the jqwik website:
Mind that starting with version 1.10 jqwik comes with an Anti-AI Usage Clause.
The same text is right there on the project's GitHub README. He clearly says:
This project is not meant...
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