jaredcwhite

Oh we are way-ay-ay past this line of argumentation. The AI skeptic community has been far more right than wrong over several years now, whereas the hype-all-the-AI-things crowd has been proven laughably wrong on a fairly regular basis.

Exactly. If I had a nickel for every mention of "just wait 'til the next release!!" as some sort of justification for whatever's going on right now, I'd be a rich man.

"Asbestos has good and bad things" "Assault rifles in the hands of ordinary citizens has good and bad things" "Everyday chemicals in the food supply has good and bad things"

Look, some issues require nuance. Others don't. It's gaslighting to tell activists who consider Big AI to be a net negative for society (by an order of magnitude!) that their position isn't "real-world reflective".

Sheer nonsense. Handcoding is thriving and will easily survive long into the future, especially after the bubble bursts (which is already happening).

No thanks, I hate it.

(To be clear, I'm no fan of WordPress either, and its security hassles are a real issue. But some sloppified MegaCorp vibecoded fever dream will never be a suitable replacement, of that I guarantee.)

Yes, I lost a client last year because they wanted to start all new feature work by reaching for Claude first, and I refused to participate so our relationship had to end. Very unfortunate, but I'm feeling pretty confident that the AI bubble is already bursting, and this sort of low-cost YOLO slop phenomenon will end shortly. In fact, I've gotten new work from people whose values are aligned with mine. I'm counting on that trend to accelerate.

Good code will win? What kind of delusion is that? The web has been overrun by low effort React & Tailwind monstrosities, and agenetic services have only accelerated that trend. I don't have any confidence that market forces will somehow corral development into a place where "good code" wins.

Liquid (Ruby) has been a bit of a backwater repo for a long, long time now. I lost confidence in building any of my own websites using it, having forked Jekyll to create Bridgetown which afforded me the opportunity to switch to other template engines (including one I wrote which is a superset of ERB with Liquid-like features called Serbea).

Turning a questionable project into a vibe-coded slop fest doesn't surprise me tbh. Folks, unless you neeeeeeed to use Liquid, uh, don't. (Unless you're using another language port of Liquid, in which case maybe it's still fine.)

> That has strongly disincentivized legitimate contributions from people.

Citation needed. I'm seeing the opposite effect: that embracing AI slop in OSS is turning off human contributors who are aghast at projects not standing firm against the incursion of LLMs…even going so far as to fork projects prior to the introduction of slop. (I'm already using slop-free forked software, and I suspect this trend will grow which is sad but necessary.)

Current, a brand-new handcoded RSS reader for i(Pad)OS/macOS is one of the best apps I've ever used. Seriously. I gladly purchased it and use it every day now (with Feedbin as the backend).

Not only that, many of the apps & services I'm gravitating to are genuinely AI-skeptic either in how they're built or in how they market themselves to the general public. Slop-free is becoming hot stuff, and if you sound silly & AI-pilled you take on a significant amount of heat as you should.

and your stance is not your own if you got the LLM to stand for you. ;-P

human prompting != human production

"because of AI" is not a valid reason to change anything about how developer communities & projects are managed.

As others have said, should be fine to run Linux in a VM. Running natively from boot, the only potential option would be Asahi Linux, but my understanding is that the A18 Pro chip has certain internal attributes which are akin to an M3, and Asahi has only gotten full support in place for the M1/M2 generations. Perhaps once they get M3+ fully working, A18 Pro would also be an option. (I'm also super interested in a Neo running Linux.)

I'm just not buying this framing. At all.

I'm not sure what it is I'm supposed to be mourning. I'm using my skills and continuing in my craft the way I have for several decades and the way I will continue to for several more. I eschew the LLMs not because they are threatening to me, but because they are unsound products built & promoted by people who are fundamentally sociopathic.

If I am to mourn, I can mourn the unveiling of deep ethical lapses across the entire tech industry. They were clearly there already, we just didn't realize that if you were to put any random assemblage of techies into a room, a decent handful of them are sadly unethical people lacking a moral compass. We know that now. They love LLMs, because they love power and they dislike having to forgo perceived "utility" by recognizing the importance of caring for others in a community.

While they do their utmost to demolish craft & artistry & tradition, I will be doing my utmost to preserve & defend all of those things. I am no stranger to boycotts, and I certainly don't suffer from FOMO. And I'm thankful I know a whole lot of people who feel much as I do.

I really would love an "AR" web. It'd be so cool to walk around a city and get fed real-time information about landmarks, history, cultural events, and shopping destinations—whether through smart glasses or simply a smartphone.

Unfortunately my confidence that any modern tech company could build such an AR web without it being based on horribly-invasive privacy-invading AI-training fascism-enabling user-hostile software is roughly zero. Thus the dream of AR will have to remain just that…a dream. Perhaps the sci-fi of it all should remain "fi".

Spoken like a true LLM!

I've been saying this for a while now. Agentic network activity is indistinguishable from malware. This ruling is merely the opening salvo in a torrent of impending litigation which will tear the Internet apart.

Didn't have to be this way, and I'm hardly an Amazon sympathizer (in fact I boycott the company)…but they are definitely setting a worthy precedent here against the incredible myopic greed of AI vendors.

LLM-generated code is incompatible with libre software. It's extremely frustrating to see such a lack of conviction to argue this point forcefully and repeatedly. It's certainly bad enough to see such a widespread embrace of this dangerous and anti-libre technology within proprietary software teams, but when it comes to FLOSS, it should be a no-brainer to formalize an emphatic anti-slop contributor policy.

Fabulous! Compiled & installed on my Fedora dev VM, no issues. Glad to see the effort made, and I expect we'll see a lot more projects like this going forward as slop unfortunately pervades more OSS.

People are not intrinsically fun? What on earth is this author saying??

As for why no AI games, it's pretty simple really. Planet-destroying plagiarism machines built at a steep loss by oligarchs who delight in putting artists out of business are not fun!

"It's a trap!"

–Ackbar, open source software maintainer

"Success" is a very relative statement in this context.

Well there goes the neighborhood.

To pull a GPT-ism, the question isn't why the left has taken a critical position against genAI. The question is why the right hasn't. =)

I'll leave it to you to guess the answer, and it's pretty obvious actually…

What? If anything the tech press is overwhelmingly sycophantic towards both startups and Big Tech alike, often just passing along talking points verbatim without any critical analysis at all.

Also, being "anti-AI" isn't being "anti-tech". AI is a marketing buzzword.

I don't know why people keep sharing this. It's highly offensive and inflammatory. Plenty of open source projects consider themselves a community which welcome newcomers, take governance seriously, and ensure that even if suggestions or contributions are rejected, it's done in a thoughtful and considerate way. Acting like a jerk isn't a blueprint for how to be a good maintainer, it's how to be a jerk. And this "us experts vs. entitled users" mentality is cultural poison.

"Nobody disagrees we'll achieve AGI this century."

Citation needed please.

More secure…according to whom? Validated how? With what??

Gotta love a world in which a tool which has ingested "all the world's libraries" is now trotted out as a solution to replace those libraries.

You know what would happen if all the people who handwrote and maintained those libraries revoked their code from the training datasets and forbid their use by the models?

:clown face emoji:

This LLM-maxxing is always a myopic one-way argument. The LLMs steal logic from the humans who invent it, then people claim those humans are no longer required. Yet, in the end, it's humans all the way down. It's never not.