I'm fundamentally a tool builder, and LLM coding agents work one million times better if you give them good tools, and I wrote a thing about this

https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html

zero_dof_programming

I do enjoy using these things in ways that don't plagiarize and don't inflict slop on people. for example, when debugging an LLVM pass, this kind of thing can actually work. like, this actually found a miscompilation bug just now, and may find more if I ask it to keep going. it's an absolutely fresh LLVM pass, there is no chance that the LLM was trained on anything it's seeing here (much less on bug fixes to it).
@regehr what about the plagiarization, at unimaginable scale, that went into the training? "I'm *fundamentally* a tool builder, so I disregard ethics"?
@bikubi I also drive a car and fly on airplanes, which I know to be bad. do you make any compromises, or is everything you do purely good?
@bikubi oh I also eat meat, though quite seldomly
@regehr great defense, i do bad sometimes, so i do every new bad that comes up. let's give that new right wing party a fair shake, i heard it's convenient and exciting
@bikubi thanks for your input, internet rando!
@bikubi I appreciate your part in making mastodon feel like twitter used to feel ❤️