Post #1919654

2026-02-05 16:29 UTC

IF one ignores all the issues around copyright and other ways this stupid bubble manages to suck out all life out of anything fun and dear, I honestly couldn't care less about the "AI" in AI-code contributions. Usually the use itself isn't the issue, I just don't think it provides any benefit to productivity, if applied correctly, but that is beside the point and doesn't cause me any problems. The problem is the person driving the agent usually having absolutely no idea what it is they are writing. So when somebody claims to not *have time to discuss design questions in some chat room*, because they have other stuff to do and just wanna throw some code "for free" over the fence, then I can't help but feel a little bit insulted as somebody who was on a PhD position on software maintenance for a couple of years. And when they further elaborate, that this level of entitlement against AI will cause open source to die, then I just become speechless. Surely all these lines of superficially documented code won't be the death of open source. /s

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@faithisleaping@anarres.family 2026-02-05 16:56

@drakulix@social.dreampi.es Yeah, most usages of AI in coding that I've seen are when someone is trying to use the LLM to write code they themselves are incapable of writing on their own. They think think it's some sort of intelligence multiplier. But then you end up with a pile of code (LLMs often write way too much code) that no one understands and they're unwilling to deal with code review because that would require them to understand the code (which they don't). Then they fall back on "Well, it's here if you want it." But of course the implication is hat you should want it because they contributed it. Except I don't. Like, maybe if you stumbled on the solution to a bug I might be more interested in that bug than I was yesterday when I'd forgotten it existed. But if you're looking for me to help you debug and clean up LLM code you don't understand, no thanks. I've got better things to do with my time. And then they get offended that you're not appreciative of their contribution. Yeah, it's a hell hole.

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