"Dark Hours" is probably one of the first public smoking gun cases of a complete app (including the name) being copy/pasted by Claude Code and getting the "AI-enhanced" developer into trouble.
Godier did a good job in the aftermath by taking the app down and apologizing, but people really need to understand that "AI code" comes from somewhere and that somewhere is usually someone else's hard, copyrighted work.
https://blog.terrygodier.com/2026/08/09/mea-culpa-dark-hours.html
#DarkHours #AI #SmokingGun #Copyright
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