Post #1973013
2026-05-03 18:18 UTC
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@blinry@chaos.social 2026-05-03 18:22
I want our project to be independent and resilient! Relying on the products of big, for-profit companies and their business model doesn't seem very wise in that regard. @andrewrk also recently pointed out that, by embracing LLM coding, you suddenly divide your community into rich and poor. And I want to act in accordance to my ethical concerns about energy usage, worker exploitation, and the mass violation of copyright and open-source licenses caused by these companies.
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@panda@pandas.social 2026-05-03 19:02
@blinry Coding may be fun at times, but in the end, its hard and complex work. We agree that high quality code requires a lot of brain work. LLMs can help through these cycles of exhaustion, but imo i often overextend my capacities and I'll have to rewrite it, because my exhausted brain also struggles to ensure code output quality from an LLM. This is also the reason I stopped using LLMs entirely for coding. I rather step back for a few days when I feel exhausted. There's no easy escape from burnout. I feel midly bad for not really delivering something in a week or so, but I also feel the need to take care about myself. As long as management is happy with my work, I'm not going to work harder for any reason. I know this may have gone slightly off track, but I just wanted to say: Take care about yourself if everything else is too much :)
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@mushu@social.troll.academy 2026-05-03 20:14
@blinry thank you. I must admit I'm troubled by how papers [1,2] seem to state one direction yet so little concern seems to be extended to it in everyday conversations. It's nice to read words of care about this aspect ❤️🩹. [1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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@eauDeKernel@chaos.social 2026-05-04 00:30
@blinry full agree here - I also only used code completions, not the agentic stuff, thinking that this is a decent compromise to at least not develop slop. And I don't think it lowered the quality of the code I wrote - but when I needed to create a simple data visulation last week - using internal data, so no cloud based autocomplete - It took me twice as long as when I did it in uni years ago. I genuinely think it made my skills atrophy.