YorickPeterse

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Author of the Inko programming language, formerly a staff developer at GitLab.

Website: https://yorickpeterse.com

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Comment · 13 days ago
By taking responsibility of it, maybe by saying "Hey this is not a good idea", and if that doesn't work perhaps by switching jobs if that's an option?

The mental gymnastics developers are willing to go through just so they can avoid standing up for something is quite perplexing.

Comment · 16 days ago
And for every such person there's another person of similar experience that doesn't use an LLM nor wants to.
Comment · 18 days ago
Probably because the shovel Anthropic is selling may not be as good as they claim it to be.
Comment · 1 month ago
Banning AI generated content works just fine, and arguing otherwise is nothing short of FOMO.

As a random example, AI generated content is banned from the /r/ProgrammingLanguages subreddit and any regular visitor that _isn't_ suffering from AI psychosis/FOMO will tell you it's for the better. In general it's not that difficult to moderate for it either as AI built projects consistently contain the same patterns _over and over_ such that 98% is easily detected.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
No one is dead because I launched a nuclear missile.

That doesn't mean I _should_ be given access to a nuclear missile.

Comment · 3 months ago
There are many arguments one could make in favor of keeping AI around and using it, but your "argument" here is just about the lousiest and most naive argument one could possibly make, and shows a complete lack of empathy and understanding from your end.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think that's called a train.
Comment · 3 months ago
Oh no, anyway...
Comment · 3 months ago
What's a search engine?
Comment · 3 months ago
Probably more than we'd like to admit. This isn't new either (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 for example).

Thinking software developers have done no wrong (deliberately or not) ever is just borderline naive.

Comment · 4 months ago
You're running an LTS release first released in 2024. What exactly did you expect was going to happen?
Comment · 4 months ago
Ah yes, so if say Hitler says "millions of people should die" then it's not violence, it's "just" words.

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