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One of the lessons that many in software strangely never learn is that breaking something while being an asshole gets a very different response from people than breaking something while not being an asshole
And, given how “AI” continues to pour shit on the rest of society, using LLMs is widely going to be perceived as an asshole move
For better or for worse, using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building
that fucking post got boosted onto my feed *again* and I guess this time all I want to say is that any asshole can claim to be anti-LLM while shouting down and tone policing legitimate critiques of LLMs. that is in fact a common sales tactic used by boosters: Simon Willison has declared himself an AI critic, but in every way that matters he defends the technology and boosts critihype.
it sucks but sometimes even marginalized people get taken in by a harmful power structure and end up saying and doing terrible things to defend their position in that power structure.
I’ve watched far too many of my personal heroes fall prey to cognitive surrender to be shocked anymore when it happens, but I understand the urge to side with someone you used to look to as a positive example. please do what you can to prevent yourself from being used as part of a harmful power structure, even if someone from your same lot in life tells you that this time the power structure is ok.
So, it’s becoming clear that some devs treat their peers as authorities irrespective of the nonsense they’re spouting. What matters is, effectively, “time served”
Been a noticeable part of the tech or OSS communities for years? Then your hallucinatory ravings get treated as a double-blind peer-reviewed study
Been less noticeable? Nothing you say will ever shift their opinion.
Sure, they’ll feel bad that you feel harmed, but they’ll always back their friends
(Yes. This is an rsync post)
Tridge has responded on the rsync vibe disaster
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
* you're all dumb haters
* AI is a revolution just in the past few months
* yes there were regressions but,
* the new test suite is awesome you haters
* openrsync doesn't pass the new test suite! ha, you fools! well that's cos it targets an older version but,
at least it reads like he wrote it by hand
i can pick the particular mastodon posts he's reacting to here
Knowing that a majority of the voices online in web dev now no longer care about implementation is honestly quite demotivating. Why try new approaches in web dev when you know most are going to just have their “agents” generate legacy approaches anyway? Why talk about it to a small and dwindling audience?
Why work in a field that has accepted stagnation as a standard practice?
So, y’know, feeling a bit demotivated
The way many of the luminaires of tech—CEOs, VCs and OSS leaders used to constant praise—are currently behaving is honestly indistinguishable from a mental health episode. Like, they keep saying stuff that’s either just outright irrational or both manifestly false and trivial to check wrapped up either in insipid GPT-speak or a hodgepodge unabomber-style ramble
They don’t seem well.
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