I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.
I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.
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Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116351160646659684
This is written as a rebuttal to something, but it’s not clear to me what the rebuttal is to.
I remember seeing a presentation from the folks that would eventually found LibreOffice back at Linux 2005 and it came across as a group of people who couldn’t work with upstream who decided to deliberately picked a license that meant upstream couldn’t take their patches because they didn’t like not being in control of a project that they were contributing to. They became an official independent fork with its own brand some years later. I’ve never really trusted things their marketing has said since then, but I can’t even tell what this is saying other than ‘we accidentally made a cartel masquerading as a non-profit and some unspecified bad people were stopping us from changing’.
The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.
There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.
All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.
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I think that I am underselling how much of a complete catastrophe this code is. I am trying to pick examples that illustrate broader patterns of how fucked it and AI code in general is because it's hard to communicate that everything is fucked if you consider it at any scale larger than ~10 lines.
I am reminded of the living planet in Lem's "Solaris" - Claude code dares to ask the question of "what if you could make something where every bit of it is so uniquely fucked that it cannot be reduced in complexity to a few general patterns of how fucked it is, and the only way to express the depth of fuckery is to experience every single character one by one"
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