Mastodawn

I start reading what is supposedly a powerful personal story about burnout in open source. Then I start to see the pattern - that familiar tempo. Admittedly there's no "Not x. Not y. Just z'. But there's that faint whiff, like the neighbor is burning toast. The paragraphs are just a bit too regular. Something about the headings. Yeah my dude, you used ChatGPT to write this, didn't you. I'm sure of it. Not sure enough of just how much to comment on the post, and I don't have the energy to get in an argument about it.

Ai both degrades trust - making us suspicious of everything we see and read - and sucks the life and personality out of absolutely everything it touches. I'm so sick of starting to read and going, oh, nope this is machine-generated nothingness. I hate this. I hate all of it.

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the roamer 20h ago

@bluetea

Yeah, 100%. The poisoning of trust is the worst aspect of the whole thing. It voids any strategy that tries to maintain an LLM-free zone. It attacks us from inside the city walls.

Did you see that now-famous rust article by the chief rust promoter at the rust foundation, that is this formulation over and over again:

I am going to invest in rust and make billions of dollars because rust is great
- quote, "every smart businessman"

I am going to retrain in rust because it is super the best decision for my career.
- quote, "every smart programmer"

I am going to have my product rewritten in rust because it is best
- quote, "every smart product owner"

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LisPi

@screwlisp @the_roamer @bluetea Meanwhile no stable ABI, static linking for anything interacting with the language directly, no specification, blessed language package manager cargo (let's encourage all the antipatterns), assumption of a single build tool/system (cargo), only a single implementation (that defines the reference documentation).

Anyway, "great" except for all the "features" that make it extra-vulnerable to ensloppification.

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