Giacomo TesioOne of the (small but annoying) issues that bugs me in these years is how to use my little, sparsed, free hours as a pretty experienced programmer to improve the world my children live in.
For sure, primum non nocere: I don't want to contribute to #commons that are going to be used against them.
So my work must be totaly useless or even toxic to #BigTech and #LLM programmers, for example.
But even within such constraint, I struggle to decide if I should work on something people can use today to protect themselves (e.g. a simple web UI for doh.cgi ) or on something that might turn to be useful in a (probably remote) future, either directly or by widening the #Overton window, such as #JehanneOS or a new programming language designed to be LLM resistant (and again, likely toxic).
The engineer in me push me torwards something that is useful here and now. The hacktivist in me push me towards more "pointless" (hopeless but hopegenetic?) hacks.
And so I work a little on a project, a little on another, slowing down each one.
Is this an issue to anybody else?
If so, how do you address it?
For sure, primum non nocere: I don't want to contribute to #commons that are going to be used against them.
So my work must be totaly useless or even toxic to #BigTech and #LLM programmers, for example.
But even within such constraint, I struggle to decide if I should work on something people can use today to protect themselves (e.g. a simple web UI for doh.cgi ) or on something that might turn to be useful in a (probably remote) future, either directly or by widening the #Overton window, such as #JehanneOS or a new programming language designed to be LLM resistant (and again, likely toxic).
The engineer in me push me torwards something that is useful here and now. The hacktivist in me push me towards more "pointless" (hopeless but hopegenetic?) hacks.
And so I work a little on a project, a little on another, slowing down each one.
Is this an issue to anybody else?
If so, how do you address it?
Shamar