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Matthew Garrett
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Former biologist. Actual PhD in genetics. Security at Nvidia, OS security teaching at https://www.ischool.berkeley.edu. Blog: https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog . He/him.
It's nice to be able to book UK travel without having to participate in the "Matthew doesn't get arrested at the airport challenge", I've missed this
MaaikePiss off a tech bro, speedrun any%:
Coding is not the hard part of making software. People are the hard part of making software.
Therefore, computer science is a humanities study.
Palantir telling their foreign customers that their priority will always be to defend the USA is certainly a choice
Ah no wait it's the theme from Gunship 2000 phew
Can someone produce a free software alignment chart where we one one axis we have the four freedoms and on the other we have IP law
Clearly my most unpopular thread ever, so let me add a clarification: submitting LLM generated code you don't understand to an upstream project is absolute bullshit and you should never do that. Having an LLM turn an existing codebase into something that meets your local needs? Do it. The code may be awful, it may break stuff you don't care about, and that's what all my early patches to free software looked like. It's ok to solve your problem locally.
Personally I'm not going to literally copy code from a codebase under an incompatible license because that is what the law says, but have I read proprietary code and learned the underlying creative aspect and then written new code that embodies it? Yes! Anyone claiming otherwise is lying!
(Yes ok there are cases where code is beauty and embodies an idea that could make a grown man cry and:
(1) your code is not that code
(2) you would think nothing of copying the creative aspect of that code if you needed to don't fucking lie to me)
Look, coders, we are not writers. There's no way to turn "increment this variable" into life changing prose. The creativity exists outside the code. It always has done and it always will do. Let it go.