"FOSS maintainers are unpaid and don't have the resources to manage large open source projects, they _have_ to use AI to get anything done."
I've seen this take a couple of times in recent weeks, and I've got two things to say about it:
1. We've been able to manage large open source projects for decades in the past, without LLMs.
2. Ever thought about how there may be a connection between "FOSS is unpaid" and capitalism producing trillion-dollar AI companies and more and more billionaires?
@daniel_bohrer @scy Completely valid, but table saws and routers and jigs are still tools. They're things that a skilled user can apply to their craft to get a predictable result.
LLMs are not such a tool. They're a way to replace the creative part of your craft with a sloppy, lossy copy of somebody else's work and avoid crediting them.
@Datenproletarier @daniel_bohrer @scy I mean you might if you designed the process yourself and programmed the robot to do it. That's what some of us do with plastic and 3D printers, or with CNC lathes/mills and metal. And it's very much a craft.
The problem is not that the "AI" is making "perfect" output that doesn't involve manual work. It's that it's just haphazardly mixing lossy copies of other people's designs with no care for whether or how they meet any actual technocal requirement or expressive goal a person might have. This is rather the opposite of "perfect".
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