YorickPeterse
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
The mental gymnastics developers are willing to go through just so they can avoid standing up for something is quite perplexing.
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.
One very quick "slop or not?" test is to see if em dashes are used in the source code where they literally never make sense. It's not a great test, but it's one that consistently turns out to be good enough. The results should speak for themselves: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ajolt-lang%2Fjolt+%E2%80%9...
That doesn't mean I _should_ be given access to a nuclear missile.
Thinking software developers have done no wrong (deliberately or not) ever is just borderline naive.
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