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The recent claim that artificial intelligence has rendered software intellectual property “effectively worthless” forces quantitative traders to rethink the economics of proprietary code. This article connects that market shock to core concepts from high‑dimensional statistics and machine learning, showing how the same forces that erode IP value also shape model risk, over‑fitting, and portfolio construction. The Changing Economics of Code in an AI‑Dominated World When a generative model can reproduce large parts of a trading algorithm from a brief description, the competitive advantage of owning that code diminishes....