yep, that’s basically my thought.

“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” is what my momma taught me.

if it’s malicious that’s one thing, if it’s free and open source who gives a rats ass how it was made.

oh no your free thing you didn’t pay for gets abandoned? why don’t you take up the reins?

just feels like asking a lot of people and giving them nothing in return

Fair points, I concede.

As someone who has built a lot of software it’s hard to see people treat LLMs as useless when they are shooting themselves in the foot by doing so.

anecdotally, I’ve built a lot of projects and abandoned them because I ran out of time. With an LLM to reduce the input effort I actually think I would’ve maintained them longer.

do you have a source which backs up what you’re claiming?

it shouldn’t matter.

these tools are here to stay.

Oh yeah, 100% agree the future is local. I think we’ll have dedicated chips that have specific models burned on to them to run ultra fast and efficiently.

The mainframe style of computing always goes out of vogue as soon as it can because it sucks

sure - but the unpaid volunteer building your free and open source software wants to go faster so they can spend less of their valuable time on it.

In-general, if you feel this way, lead by example. Fork or contribute but don’t just complain

So do I. You can structure and use the tools responsibly.

Two things I really like using LLMs for right now:

1). Search complex codebases for summaries of “how does this work”. Especially if you are working outside of a project you normally work in, but your code still utilizes it and you want to understand some behavior (or at least know where to look).

2.) PR reviews. I’ve been building a custom skill for awhile now that does a great second pass on PRs. I do my initial review, then sic the LLM on it. It often turns up small things I overlooked that are worth addressing.

Currently, I use LLMs in more of a read-only manner, but I have had success in giving them well-structured easier tickets, if your project has good guidelines and you use the planning mode. You need to have an understanding of where you are working to even utilize these.

I know it’s an unpopular take, because the hive mind wants LLMs to fail SO bad here, but I think there is a usecase for these long-term for B2B software dev.

That said, I generally disagree with the shoving LLMs into things. There are a lot of wasteful examples where companies replace a perfectly good deterministic thing with a token generator and then it gets worse.

yes - God forbid people try to use tools to enable them to get things done faster. If folks worked in software they’d see that LLMs will not be going away there. Folks need to understand that FOSS is not an exception here. They’re welcome to fork and maintain things thanklessly themselves if they dislike it.

yes you are right and everyone else is a little uneducated for thinking this could actually be a fire risk

you are absolutely right. there is value to these in software engineering and the people who don’t realize that and learn how and when to apply them will be left behind

…do you not use JavaScript?

exact same story as I. have also been eyeballing NixOS lol. big time investment for me though

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Allo! Am I late to the party?

Yeah, fair. Where fiber can be run fiber should be run.

Just scarred from all the times where we spend x billion to expand fiber, it doesn’t happen, somehow nobody gets held accountable.

I mean damn, at least Starlink is providing a service

I’ve been using Projectivy. It’s really simple and great!

Not like these ones. I’m almost tired of having this discussion y’all are blinded by hatred.

First full flow staged combustion engine, dramatically lower launch prices than competitors (cheaper for the government and has enabled more interesting things to go to space), dramatically more access (SpaceX flies multiple times a week!), booster recovery & rocket reuse.

And again I know everyone really is blinded by their seething rage but starship is going to change the whole landscape again.

You can hate the man as much as you want, I’m not saying I don’t. But you discredit yourself by not knowing what SpaceX is actually doing.

I mean, we still wouldn’t have US access to space without SpaceX (Boeing fiasco…).

SpaceX has developed laundry list of new technology to enable Starlink and other endeavors. It’s silly to discount that as worthless.

even less for Starlink

it’s such a game changer when you’re actually using it. night and day, completely different experience.

also, GEO is in many regards more at risk for Kessler syndrome because stuff up there doesn’t deorbit