Post #1439812
2026-03-16 19:13 UTC
Obviously, turning auto-updates off is also extremely unsafe.
But when you fire your engineering department, demand ten times the output from the survivors, and then outsource that output to the Lying Machine, how can I trust that in six months anyone at your company will know what your code does anymore?
This isn’t a problem that can be solved with using open-source tools either. As we saw with the whole chardet incident, volunteer communities are equally vulnerable to this thinking.
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@Haste@mastodon.social 2026-03-16 19:21
Everyone is rightly upset about the plagiarism, and the class war angle of it. But I don’t really see anyone talking about the (in my opinion) very real possibility of software declining in reliability across the board. It’s one thing if your check flow has errors in it. I might be annoyed if my shopping takes 15% longer, or if there are 15% more bugs, or your shitty chatbot hallucinates whenever I’m trying to get support. Those things are definitely annoying, but I’ll survive.