Post #4061976

2026-07-24 08:47 UTC

@juliank@mastodon.social @tris@chaos.social ok, but as a free software maintainer I have really yet to identify any case where I would want to use an LLM for a task that I didn't already have more suitable workflows for.

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@zygoon@fosstodon.org 2026-07-24 08:52

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @juliank@mastodon.social @tris@chaos.social As a maintainer I can attest that LLMs drastically improve my workflow and work life balance. I have yet to find and area where they didn't help me greatly. I would love to exchange notes. Edit: this includes local models running on my laptop and my nvidia spark, as well as open and proprietary models operated by 3rd parties.

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@juliank@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 08:53

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems @tris@chaos.social I can give you two examples: In a single reviewer project like APT I can either trust the test suite and myself, or I can add a vibe plausibility check. Also I spent a lot of my time either in or recovering from meetings, so having the AI produce code in the background and then have me review that is also helpful. Not all of the stuff is trivial enough for that though, but there's lots of low hanging fruits that the AI can reasonably work on.

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