[singularfutur]

Reverting a few trivial commits because of purity tests is a bad precedent. It rewards the loudest commenters and punishes maintainers.

[imsofuture]

It will be a painful decade until those who have already lost this weird ideological war ever realize it.

[rsynnott]

And which side is that? I mean, from my point of view, it seems like it’s probably the ones who are having a magic robot write a thousand lines of code that almost, but not quite, does something sensible, rather than using a bloody library.

(For whatever reason, LLM coding things seem to love to reinvent the square wheel…)

[Seattle3503]

This sort of purity policing happens to other open source mission driven projects. The same thing happens to Firefox. Open source projects risk spending all their time trying to satisfy a fundamentally extreme minority, while the big commercial projects act with impunity.

It seems like it is hard to cultivate a community that cares about doing the right thing, but is focused and pragmatic about it.

[Palomides]

what if the users legitimately don't want AI written software?

[raincole]

You have to think twice if you really want to cater to these 'legitimate users' then. In Steam's review section you can find people give negative reviews just because the game uses Unity or Unreal. Should devs cater to them and develop their in-house engine?

[minimaxir]

Then they have the right to not use it: Stoat does not have a monopoly on chat software.

[beAbU]

Then they can go and use software that's not AI written.

[minimaxir]

And then you have the "Alas, the sheer fact that LLM slop-code has touched it at all is bound to be a black stain on its record" comments.

[blibble]

maybe a preview of what's to come when the legal system rules the plagiarism machine's output is a derivative work?

[spankalee]

Since a human can also be a "plagiarism machine" (it's a potential copyright violation for both me and an LLM alike to create images of Mickey Mouse for commercial uses) it'll matter exactly what the output is, won't it?