Fedor Indutny6d ago

In a way I'm glad that we started discourse on LLM use in Node.js core because it revealed to me that there are a lot more people who are not in AI hype-cycle than I previously thought. I'm now much more optimistic about the future of software engineering!

Consider this:

- 87.3% upvote ratio with 298 upvotes on /r/node
- 76.6% upvote ratio with 50 upvotes on /r/javascript (and I just posted it)
- Incredibly supportive comments on HN (!!!)

Show threadPipe Gutierrez

@indutny hey Fedor 👋🏼👋🏼 the one question I haven’t seen addressed is, if an LLM guaranteed to be solely trained on permissive license projects and produced only usable (legally) code, should that be allowed?

I Ask because I agree that the current PR doesn’t follow the DCO, but what if this “magic” LLM did?

Sorry if this was aked before but didnt see it anywhere

Mar 25 at 6:18pmWeb
Show threadFedor Indutny1d ago

@pipeGutierrez great question! I'd be still against using it for different reasons (code quality, new contributor on-boarding and education).

That being said, I agree that ethical component of LLM-based contributions is a significant factor!

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@[email protected] @[email protected] there's also the "should we contribute to/encourage at 20-30% rise in worldwide energy usage, with its consequent tens to hundreds of millions of extra deaths from climate change?"