Post #1300743

2026-04-15 20:01 UTC

some nerd: "I just want to have a discussion about LLM use in your project" me: "this is not the place to be having that discussion. I have already established a boundary" some nerd: "I am offended that you are not having this discussion right here, on my terms" fuck you, this is my own damn repo this is literally on one of the 1 or 2 open source projects I'm still willing to maintain at any level. Just absolutely not giving me any reason to keep doing open source at all. Fuck all of these people, and fuck open source.

Replies (14)

@zkat@toot.cat 2026-04-15 20:05

like jesus fuck I'm not even ragging on LLMs or fighting anyone. I'm literally just saying "this is not the space for this discussion" and marking replies as off-topic, including my own responses to them, so as not to detract from the completely unrelated issue.

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@astraluma@tacobelllabs.net 2026-04-15 20:03

@zkat fuck that guy

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@xgranade@wandering.shop 2026-04-15 20:04

@zkat tech has a consent problem part one billion and four

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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-04-15 20:05

@zkat 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@borup@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-15 20:30

@zkat good for you. You (or anybody) don't owe those people anything! Also thank you for your (mostly) thankless work.

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@ennenine@mastodon.social 2026-04-15 21:11

@zkat immature entitlement at its finest :P

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@ermo@fosstodon.org 2026-04-15 21:16

@zkat Keep fighting the good fight. Thank you for all that you do.

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@benjamineskola@hachyderm.io 2026-04-15 21:26

@zkat ‘yes / maybe later’ mindset strikes again. “I already decided and the answer is no” isn’t an acceptable answer for these people. You have to keep discussing until you agree.

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@nein@chaos.social 2026-04-15 22:39

@zkat still thank you so much for making / maintaining kdl :). I was really happy finding it and am happy using it.

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@elle@weathered-steel.social 2026-04-16 03:50

@zkat first off, fuck that person, they should respect your boundaries. I'm also dealing with immense frustration that there isn't more backlash in the FOSS community against this LLM bullshit. hoping to see a split similar to FOSS/OSS split with pro-humans having an LLM-free space to share code, and bot-lovers can suck corpo shit on GitHub

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@tian2992@mastodon.social 2026-04-16 07:12

@zkat that's the difference on open source and free software. The power relationships. Fork off and shut up seems a reasonable response on your behalf.

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@wakame@tech.lgbt 2026-04-16 20:00

@zkat "Talk to your LLM if you want someone who always tells you that your ideas are great."

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@MaddieM4@raphus.social 2026-04-16 20:45

@zkat Open source is (maybe subtly) about maintainership, and LLMs are incredibly hostile to maintainers. And licensing! I definitely have moved towards the Radical Copyleft over the last two years, after spending most of my career leaning towards permissive licenses, because I finally see the value of having some legal teeth to bite back against bad actors. Even GPL isn't some cure-all though, and it's exhausting. It's going to be a dark couple years of existing open source exploitation trends/burnout getting worse, which will be recounted by ghouls: "I don't understand why $maintainer doesn't just drink the Radithor I'm hawking! I've never felt more vitality in my bones."

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@megalomaniac@mastodon.me.uk 2026-04-16 21:03

@zkat if it’s open source… I believe it’s acceptable to tell them to fork off 😉

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