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I very firmly believe that every Senator and Representative not calling for immediate removal right now should be tried for war crimes themselves after this is over.
What is the line!?!?!
We've dropped all pretense that this isn't a war. That makes it illegal. Period. He's threatening genocide. Why do we have to wait for him to launch a fucking nuke before Congress or the police step in and arrest him?
But like, in specific to things like https://functional.cafe/@chris__martin/116336618252984182 - no, you don't have to swallow your pride. You need to get far far worse about swallowing pride and refuse to do it. You have to start having a lot more pride and start getting very angry when you're asked not to.
The problem is that programmers have spent decades telling themselves that they need to have less pride, separating themselves from code in order to assuage guilt over what they build.
There are a whole lot of programmers who just need to swallow their pride and understand that, although from your perspective maybe you feel like you're building cool new things, in the bigger picture you're here to replace systems with digital versions that are CHEAPER
@chris__martin It's some of the software devs waking up to problems, but the *rest of the developers and industry* going "no, this is good. We should be automated too. We want this outcome."
Artists and craft workers and normies oppose code-gen more than programmers do, which is wild to me.
I think the reality on the ground is that the reason AI has started to focus on programming so much is because that's the one space where the majority of members don't mind being automated.
@chris__martin hey, the rest of society is far more anti-LLM than programmers are. The art spaces saw this stuff and told the AI peddlers - both for image AND code-gen - to get the fuck out of our communities.
What's happening here is that programmers *haven't* had this reaction. If software devs want to join us in caring about shit, they're allowed to.
It's not that we're sitting back eating popcorn and laughing, it's that the software devs mostly enjoy this.
@flaki @bodil Mike isn't saying "local models are the future so I'm boycotting Claude code." Nor is he saying, "local models will catch up, and I'm so confident that I'm willing to wait for that to happen before I use LLMs."
He has a sentiment, but no action. His usage is indistinguishable from the usage of the biggest Claude booster.
He's acting exactly like them, but I'm supposed to give him credit because he hopes the world will be different some day.
@flaki @bodil I've got multiple objections to Mike's framing but one of my bigger ones is that he offers no path to get from point A to point B other than "I hope local models get better."
Mike isn't relying on local models. No one (aside from I guess Cory Doctorow?) is. The local models are not "almost as good", and even if they were, all Mike is demonstrating is that even the advocates for local models will not tolerate using them.