I have noticed that inheritance is largely ignored by experienced developers but it's a hard argument to make that "all good JS programmers do this".

Classes are invaluable and are an extremely efficient and ergonomic way to manage state in GUI applications.

That said, avoiding classes was published in some blog post at some point and the JS hype machine went crazy with FP. As a consequence, I have yet to observe a maintainable React codebase. Good looking and performant React applications are even fewer and farther between.

Personally, writing idiomatic React has me focus too much on render cycles that I think less about how the application looks & feels. Appropriate abstractions become more difficult to conceptualize and any non-trivial application ends up a 5mb bundle with no multi-threading or optimizations. This is also what I have observed "the best JS devs" do in the wild.

I'm struggling to parse the double negative in that statement, haha.

Are you saying that you believe that untested but technically; models trained on GPL sources need to distribute the resulting LLMs under GPL?

Having over a decade of open source software I've written freely available online, I actually really appreciate the value that AI && LLMs have provided me.

The thing that leaves a bad taste in my mouth is the fact that my works were likely included in the training data and, if it doesn't violate my licenses (GNU 2/3), it certainly feels against the spirit of what I intended when distributing my works.

I was made redundant recently "due to AI" (questionable) and it feels like my works in some way contributed to my redundancy where my works contributed to the profits made by these AI megacorps while I am left a victim.

I wish I could be provided a dividend or royalty, however small, for my contribution to these LLMs but that will never happen.

I've been looking for a copy-left "source available" license that allows me to distribute code openly but has a clause that says "if you would like to use these sources to train an LLM, please contact me and we'll work something out". I haven't yet found that.

I'm guessing that such a license would not be enforceable because I am not in the US, but at least it would be nice to declare my intent and who knows what the future looks like.