Post #4095776
2026-07-25 17:11 UTC
@hywan@floss.social
This + the final statement of proposal A : " Debian is not here to generate as much code as possible requiring manual review by a shrinking number of human volunteers, or to package every piece of software, or to rush new features, but these are what LLMs are used for. " could readily be applied e.g. to scientific research.
"/Universities/ are not here to generate as much /papers/ as possible requiring manual review by a shrinking number of /human researchers/" ...!
#AI #MastodonScience #AIinResearch #LLM
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@jtnystrom@genomic.social 2026-07-26 21:06
@jocelyn_etienne@scicomm.xyz @hywan@floss.social the ideal scientific process might have a lot in common with the ideal open source process!
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@bryce@mastodon.brycedixon.dev 2026-07-28 00:03
@jocelyn_etienne@scicomm.xyz @hywan@floss.social I forget where I heard it first, but: > Code does not itself provide value. Instead, we must see code as a liability and the *functionality it produces* as having value. Through this lens, we should be trying to *minimize* code production, not maximize it.