got a fun reply yesterday that was like "yeah I can't believe people are taking such a lax approach to verifying the behaviour of software especially if they use LLMs. we never would have done this when I worked at <well known arms manufacturer>"
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LLMs turn your job into mostly code review, a task everyone famously loves to do and is good at
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just had the misfortune of seeing yegge's latest piece and you could not paint a clearer picture of technofeudalism if you tried. it's all the worst aspects of 2020s tech in a single product
me 3 months ago: £100+/mo is an unjustifiable expense for what claude does for me
me now: not sure I could live with myself knowingly giving £100+/mo to the "blow up a random school" machine
the genAI industry is a project to enclose and then destroy the commons and then rent it back to everyone. it is digital feudalism
i.e. this would be a really effective way to destroy FOSS by exposing authors to an enormous volume of legal risk they were previously shielded from
the reason I did this is that Apache 2 gives the author greater protection from vexatious lawsuits while placing no real additional burdens on users
if someone can just strip the license off a published work you as an author have *zero* protection