Post #1785033

2026-04-24 07:06 UTC

@tomgag There are a lot of claims but they don't rise to the level of coherent argument in most cases. What exactly is 'unethical' about a machine reading liberally licensed FOSS that allows it? Most of Github is liberally licensed FOSS. As I said whoever pours more effort in their fork "wins". We'll have to see how it actually turns out, but with that in mind, the non-"MIINE" guys seem to have made a tactical error eschewing AI... the upstart bro will increasingly out-compete them via AI.

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@einalex@chaos.social 2026-04-24 07:25

@hopeless If I could pay for the guarantee to not run ai-generated code in my system, I would do so...handsomely. I suspect that quite a number of people have a similar stance towards ai-generated code, especially amongst those running mesh networks. @tomgag

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@bjb@fosstodon.org 2026-04-25 17:39

@hopeless @tomgag Are copyright and AI compatible?

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@scopecreeppress@jawns.club 2026-04-25 18:29

@hopeless @tomgag Not if the code is crap. (Aside from the numerous people who will eschew it for ethical reasons or out of the assumption that it is crap.) And one dude trying to QA code that he wrote with prompts, presumably because he doesn't know how to write the code in the first place, seems like a recipe for failure. (Heck, projects that are just one dude who *does* know what he's doing are chancy because they're a single point of failure, which the non-TM team is not.)

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@hopeless@mas.to 2026-04-26 07:25

@tomgag ... case in point is scopecreeppress, who sprayed his opinion here as if it especially mattered and then blocked me presumably for simply politely disagreeing with him. Instead of arguing and defending (or heaven forbid, modifying) his point and maybe we all learn something, his claims are vomited out and left like a bad smell, and then he's gone, forbidding any reply and guaranteeing the last, useless word and turning off the pain receptors.

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