Post #1822788
2026-04-18 14:43 UTC
Replies (5)
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@jam@tilde.zone 2026-04-18 16:18
@ekuber this is definitely one thing that annoys me about having conversations with people about LLMs, the unspoken disagreement about the artistry and craftsmanship of programming. Mass produced cheap plastic bowls and beautiful hand thrown ceramics aren't the same thing, so why are you trying to convince me to become a factory owner? Yet acknowledging this divergence of opinion implied by the premise feels like a weird moralizing non-sequitur just to express that I enjoy what I do and take pride in it
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@thomy2000@fosstodon.org 2026-04-18 17:18
@ekuber Process, result and the fact that it's created by a living, breathing human being.
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@soph@grrl.me 2026-04-18 18:24
@ekuber I think both are true. As an author, I will feel something during creation that's different from what someone reading my book is going to feel, but their experience is just as valid.
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@platlas@en.osm.town 2026-04-18 20:43
@ekuber Yes this is not impossible but hard to discuss. LLMs (especially closed-sourced ones) and morality seems to be more concrete topic than art.
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@karolherbst@chaos.social 2026-04-18 21:32
@ekuber I kinda hoped the baseline understanding of art is around that it doesn't start at "this is a masterpiece that changes everybody's life" or "what this brilliant person is doing is art and not what those peasants are doing"... Which I think is the more fundamental disagreement, maybe even misunderstanding. Though I do know that most of programmers aren't doing programming for artistic or self-expression reasons.