Post #1931168
2026-05-02 00:42 UTC
@peterb I don’t want slopmongers anywhere near me, their presence is actively harmful.
They’re not using LLMs to “explore technology,” they’re using LLMs so they can say they’ve “done a thing” without actually doing the thing. They wind up sucking all the oxygen out.
It’s the same problem as the webshits who jumped into mobile and then desktop development, and immediately turned it into giant steaming piles of JavaScript and HTML. Things would be better if they had been run off.
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@eschaton@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 00:44
@peterb And then there’s the whole problem of copyright infringement and license violation, where LLM tools just spit out code without regard to where they picked it up or what license it was originally under, and the idiots using these tools believe that this is perfectly OK. I’ve seen someone take credit for code obviously copied from a GPL’d part of SIMH.