Ariadne Conill šŸ°5d ago

things in alpine that have driven some doubt for me for some time:

- the overall governance situation (not fixed, but maybe marginally improving)

- apkv3 file format (i think it is good to use tarstreams, they are not dangerous)

- APKBUILDs just feel obsolete compared to melange

Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago
the fact that at least one developer stated that disclosing somebody else's publicly-documented conflict of interest is "doxxing"
Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago
i think my conclusion is that i want to build something better instead of continue to be a squeaky wheel that people find annoying
Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago

the fact that developers spend 90% of their time toiling with manually bumping packages, and this is why we "need" AI contributions

this stinks. it's bad engineering.

Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago

but most importantly, i want to build a community where *nobody* is infallible

one thing i have noticed, again and again and again, is that whenever anyone criticizes ncopa, people will blindly defend him

this is not good

Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago

and to be clear, i have not made a cogent argument for or against LLM contributions in the long tail. i think that we need to move slowly and focus on the fundamentals.

when the fundamentals are right, then the LLM argument looks a lot different -- time pressure which encourages LLM usage is reduced, leading to a more reasonable outcome

Show threadfungus (penicillin producer)
@ariadne iā€™m ver unaware of the situation but what i understand from your post is the llm would be used to fix the consequence and not the root problem
Jun 24 at 1:45amWeb
Show threadAriadne Conill šŸ°5d ago
@hypha you understand my concern correctly
Show threadCassandrich5d ago
@hypha @ariadne That's basically always the case when someone thinks LLMs will solve their problem.
Show threadFiona Bianchi4d ago

@dalias @hypha @ariadne to be fair, humans do have a tendency to focus on "new shiny" and assume it will solve all their problems. LLMs are just the latest focus for some.

I guess what is more disturbing with LLMs (as already highlighted): they are owned by corporations who are objectively evil (not specific to AI companies, just a general comment on overly large companies in general).