Comment by 🐙 norayr
your friends will complain a lot. they will forget about mastodon, xmpp app, and remove linux you have installed for them, then spent days to fine tune to their needs.
it is a recurring thing to me for more that 20 years.
they will tell you “it doesn't have that feature i really need and can't live without” and they'll get back to their comfort zone.
sometimes you'll remove the linux you spent days on for them yourself. it is painful.
then there are linux phones. given what is happening with android we want them to become more useful faster.
not for us, to me sxmo or windowmaker are amazing and i need nothing more. but for others.
Mar 31 · 5 weeks ago
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what i am afraid of is that floss will be less competitive for people who aren't ideological, or aren't into ideas enough.
i tried to explain the idea of free software for decades. i got better at it. but still i often can't explain people who whole life used their proprietary systems and apps why to use floss.
so if ai will also help to make our programs better, then maybe it is a tool useful for our communities?
we have lots of unsolved issues in git repos. i certainly have. last year i closed an issue i wasn't able to close for three or four years. i closed it without ai. but it took time.
another thought: i think whoever uses ai should be responsible for each line generated.
and i think they are. imagine corporate programmer. when the bug or just stupid thing in found in the code, that programmer can't say: it's not me, it's genai. that person is responsible for the code they deliver.
so i think if microsoft is rewriting windows with rust, evely line of code, hopefully, has a responsible person behind it.
someone who read, edited, agreed with the generated code.
🐦 wasolili [...] · Mar 31 at 03:53:
@norayr I suspect the claims of how much commercial code is AI generated is exaggerated to appease shareholders and upper management who have been convinced these tools are drastically more useful than they are.
🚀 stack [OP/mod] · Mar 31 at 12:54:
Because the only problem with Microsoft Windows is that it's not written in Rust.
Now with the help of AI rusty windows will destroy competition.
But seriously an AI assistant is fine. The problem is if the one being assisted is a moron.
🚀 lars_the_bear · Mar 31 at 13:40:
I suspect that converting from one programming language to another is something the an LLM could, perhaps, be trusted to do.
🚀 stack [OP/mod] · Mar 31 at 13:44:
That is just so useful! Then maybe rewrite everything in go.
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