Edward HerveyMar 26
The amount of FOSS developers using Claude (or any other proprietary/closed services) instead of using (and pushing forward) local and open weight solutions is...

I have no polite way to say this. You've sold your souls. And if it doesn't even bother you, it means you've left aside the whole point of FOSS ages ago.

Doing stuff together, for the common good.

It's even worse than 30 years ago. You are now literally giving your thoughts and code and reasoning to companies and private entities, to make that system "better". Their sole interest is profit, not the good of humanity. You are literally addicts who are not even aware of your condition.

There's no way we'll have good, open, efficient, and available for all LLM and coding agents if you carry on using and promoting those services.
Show threadNicolas DufresneMar 26
@bilboed I quite agree with you here. I think we indirectly largely contributed to it by publishing our work and all the steps we went through to get there. In fact, I strongly believe that if these things mostly work, it is largely be because of open-source projects, and our transparency, showing all the steps and reasoning publicly.
Show threadNicolas Dufresne
@bilboed and while I do give it a try, because someone else paid me an account, I'd be a lot more comfortable using and contributing to Open Source models. I still enjoy not using it, doing my slow coding that I've been doing for years, and that I enjoy. I review a lot of human written code all the time, I don't really want to replace my coding with only machine produced code ...
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Show threadEdward HerveyMar 27
@ndufresne I think we have an opportunity in the FOSS world to innovate and come up with a completely different way of using these systems as "assistant" (and not replacement).

There are still no good solutions out there where you can still be coding/designing but you have this assistant just there which can bounce ideas and suggestions when you're coding, detect gaps in the documentation/code, etc...

Something akin to how LSP have been a real boost in productivity, while still leaving you in control.

I.e. "augment" your work, not replace it