That doesn't seem like a great take on this. You seem to be implying that only unemployed people choose not to use AI, and anything that doesn't use AI is a useless toy project.
There were decades of software written before modern LLMs, and a lot of people choose to hand write their software as a form of maintaining their skill. Just like people practice martial arts even though we have guns.
If you reflect on your words, you might see another side to this.
> Just like people practice martial arts even though we have guns.
The whole point of martial arts is the art itself.
The point of software isn't the process of creating software (it was never about that), it's the end result, and all people care about is that the end result is good. And if you don't like that, you can choose another industry.
There are obviously multiple ways people can see the act of making software. And many at once. Profession, craft, passion, art.
And the differing perspectives on that do at least in part explain a lot of the conflict here.
Personally, I think "AI" use in art is an abhorrent thing that warrants a highly negative response. And when I was younger and even more pretentious than I am now, I often thought my code as some kind of "art." So I can stretch my mind to see how people who see things that way would have that same gut reaction.
But many like you only see the point as being the end result, so to them this all looks like pointless theatre.
One of the many dramatic things the "AI" tooling has done is to make all these divisions in perspective more obvious and more dramatic.
One out of two isn't catastrophic, but dear gods, wouldn't it be nice if people consulted the map instead of going off by the vibes. Poor Moldova, it got roped into the Balkans just by being a small impoverished country in the general neighborhood.
Funny enough if you read their blogpost on this, they don't want people with useless toy projects, they want projects with communities...(subtext: to leech off of).
That blog post while on the LLM topic also started throwing the OSS bathwater out and went straight-on leech mode in between the lines.
That doesn't seem like a great take on this. You seem to be implying that only unemployed people choose not to use AI, and anything that doesn't use AI is a useless toy project.
There were decades of software written before modern LLMs, and a lot of people choose to hand write their software as a form of maintaining their skill. Just like people practice martial arts even though we have guns.
If you reflect on your words, you might see another side to this.
> Just like people practice martial arts even though we have guns.
The whole point of martial arts is the art itself.
The point of software isn't the process of creating software (it was never about that), it's the end result, and all people care about is that the end result is good. And if you don't like that, you can choose another industry.
> The point of software isn't the process of creating software (it was never about that), it's the end result
Just because you think that, it does not make it so.
There are obviously multiple ways people can see the act of making software. And many at once. Profession, craft, passion, art.
And the differing perspectives on that do at least in part explain a lot of the conflict here.
Personally, I think "AI" use in art is an abhorrent thing that warrants a highly negative response. And when I was younger and even more pretentious than I am now, I often thought my code as some kind of "art." So I can stretch my mind to see how people who see things that way would have that same gut reaction.
But many like you only see the point as being the end result, so to them this all looks like pointless theatre.
One of the many dramatic things the "AI" tooling has done is to make all these divisions in perspective more obvious and more dramatic.
Yes, that's exactly it. Now please go back to your githubs and leave us nerds who do not matter alone. We'll be fine, we promise!
1. Random dude self-hosts a Git instance
2. Gets mad that people he doesn't like DARE to sign up and use it
3. Announces that he won't allow people he doesn't like
4. Makes a big deal out of it like anyone cares
I dunno this is hilarious but pretty sad, the guy clearly has issues
how did you even come to know about this story no one cares about?
It's balkanization! We'll be Montenegro, you can have Moldova.
One out of two isn't catastrophic, but dear gods, wouldn't it be nice if people consulted the map instead of going off by the vibes. Poor Moldova, it got roped into the Balkans just by being a small impoverished country in the general neighborhood.
Funny enough if you read their blogpost on this, they don't want people with useless toy projects, they want projects with communities...(subtext: to leech off of).
That blog post while on the LLM topic also started throwing the OSS bathwater out and went straight-on leech mode in between the lines.