If your employees go to a competitor and make a secret sauce that tastes the same, how do you judge what is the source of knowledge?
They can have used their skills to come up with a recipe that tastes the same because the requirements led to that outcome, or they simply copied your recipe.
If somebody from OpenAI goes to a competitor and creates something like ChatGPT, where is the line crossed that shows that company IP is transferred? The employee knows how to create the system because he knows how ChatGPT works. If he recreates a similar system but doesn't say that it is a copy of ChatGPT, is that applied skill or is that a violation of the NDA?
If it is a violation, how could he forget the structure of ChatGPT to genuinely come up with a new structure?
I am not clever enough to notice a decline but some have argued that there has been a shift from founders to employees in the HN audience. Please don't take it as an insult, but how do you know that you are clever enough to recognize if there had been a decline?
What I have noticed in your comment:
>I see this pattern repeat over and over again
That's not a proof that there hasn't been a decline. It could as well be that each new generation is less competent.
>As soon as a node can be planted by a malicious actor
It's a directed graph that indicate who trusts whom. If you identify a malicious actor, you only have to re-validate the nodes that receive their trust from that actor.
You can also use weights, e.g. to reduce the influence of new nodes.
They can have used their skills to come up with a recipe that tastes the same because the requirements led to that outcome, or they simply copied your recipe.
If somebody from OpenAI goes to a competitor and creates something like ChatGPT, where is the line crossed that shows that company IP is transferred? The employee knows how to create the system because he knows how ChatGPT works. If he recreates a similar system but doesn't say that it is a copy of ChatGPT, is that applied skill or is that a violation of the NDA?
If it is a violation, how could he forget the structure of ChatGPT to genuinely come up with a new structure?