Baldur Bjarnason

So, AFICT the “reasonable” argument for LLM coding is if we persist through economic chaos and environmental crises while sacrificing the creative industries and education then models built using stolen data and license violations might safely revolutionise software dev productivity?

Public sentiment against “AI” is sour enough already. If you want to make software developers as a class as broadly disliked as tax auditors, this’d be the way to do it.

Apr 2 at 10:28pmWeb
Show threadMichael Roberts3d ago
@baldur Oh, but not software *developers*. They're basically morally equivalent to artisanal buggy-whip makers now.
Show threadDaniel Demmel3d ago
@baldur wait, I think tax auditors are great and we'd need more of them so rich people can't "optimise" their taxes to 0
Show threadRoger Karis3d ago
@baldur In the last year of my software engineering degree (about 20 years ago), we were introduced to the topic of "Ethiek en recht" (literally: ethics and law). At the time I had no idea what that was doing in our otherwise very technically-oriented curriculum. Over the last couple of years I've started seeing the sense of it...