We’re quickly approaching a bifurcation in FOSS with projects including or not including LLM generated code.

[janl@narrativ.es]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@janvhs/116184719405207871

We’re quickly approaching a bifurcation in FOSS with projects including or not including LLM generated code.

We’ll have to come up with a name so we can talk clearly about it.

I desperately hope the non-LLM side is going to be large enough to include a full stack, otherwise there’s a lot of work ahead of us for no good reason.

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At least until we have truly free and open, non-exploitative, consentually sourced, sustainably powered tooling, which is a bubble or two away at least.

[ramsey@phpc.social]

@janl Everything in the world is designed for polarization, at this point.

[floriann@infosec.exchange]

@janl this - but also I appreciate how the LLM bubble also helps onboarding normal developers by providing on point introductions.

[mattly@hachyderm.io]

@floriann @janl I’ve read through a few of these files and it seems a better name would be INSTRUCTIONS.md

I’d say it’s boggling that people didn’t care about this stuff before, but sadly it isn’t

[floriann@infosec.exchange]

@mattly @janl I agree!

[dahukanna@mastodon.social]

@janl why are developers “sleep walking” into “white goods” commodification - https://www.rolandberger.com/en/Insights/Publications/The-white-goods-market.html?
Going from an embodied, practiced, creative skill to a pressing buttons on a “sealed, pre-packaged appliance”.

I want “Star Trek” A.I. tech or J.A.R.V.I.S A.I. from Iron Man. Not this confabulation engine.

[jlink@det.social]

@janl NGOS Non-Generative Open Source

[cford@toot.thoughtworks.com]

@janl Might the split form along GPL vs BSD/MIT lines? Both the copyleft and LLM-free positions seem aligned on attitudes to ecosystems and the responsibilities of folks using code for their own ends.

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@janl Free software - software for the love of it - has always been a very minority position. We papered over that fact when the money-lords found us convenient.

Now it's re-appearing in a different guise.