• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Hot take: LLMs is the best thing has happened to open source movement:

    • software copyright is defeated and basically eliminated in practice
    • reverse engineering is so accessible that proprietary protocols cannot be hidden and can be reimplemented by AI agents as free software
    • open weight LLMs are incredibly competitive and run on general hardware
    • linux is de facto winner in all computing and rising in desktop and gaming niches

    We’re literally in the golden age of free software

    • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Llms have been great for finding and fixing bugs and cranking out code, but the systems that allow for generation of code at a direct cost of dollars as opposed to the overhead of managing and employing programmers aren’t under the intense pressure to not redo old work and so are disincentivized from either creating or contributing to open source projects.

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      That would be cool and all, but people stopped reading their code. At work if I can not explain every line of my PR, it will get rejected. I use it as a powerful tool but a lot of people just output code and think their trash belongs in production.